Re: [Marxism] Orange and Green (addendum)

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

james daly schrieb:
> In bourgeois political circles the best approach to the loyalists was shown 
> by Charlie Haughey, who became the leader of Fianna Fail, but only after 
> Jack Lynch had damaged the situation irreparably, and Fianna Fail and 
> Haughey were very weak and vulnerable.  Nevertheless Haughey negotiated the 
> Anglo Irish agreement with Maggie Thatcher "over the heads of the 
> Unionists" -- the Trilateralist member and future President of the 26 
> counties Mary Robinson left the Labour Party in protest.  In his last period 
> of office Haughey was finally uttering the words  which should have been 
> spoken decades before -- "a unitary state".
> 
I don't know why you are singing a hamn of praise to Charlie Haughey of 
all people, one of the most spectacularly corrupt politicians in Irish 
history, but one well adept at playing the nationalist card when it 
suited him.

The Irish bourgeoisie has had absolutely no interest in achieving Irish 
unity at least since the the mid-70s. Better to leave a destabilising 
influence that would eat a hole in the national finances in the hands of 
the Brits, which would of course also allow them to play the bourgeois 
nationalist card at will without any risk.

Einde O'Callaghan

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