[Marxism] Revolution and Religious Fundamentalism

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Luko:
 
Had the liberation gone further and deeper, i.e. achieved a full  
independence of all of Ireland, then a) the Catholic church would not have  
been able to claim a role of the unique representation and form of Christian  
faith, and b) every reactionary force would have been weakened, including  
the religious institutions. 

Reply:
 
Yes, but this is not the point I was making. Moreover, to speculate over  
what might have been had full independence been achieved is to ignore the  
reality of a rigidly pro-unionist six counties. 
 
There is not a scintilla of evidence that any enlightened faction or  strain 
of thought existed in the unionist controlled six counties at  the time that 
would have allowed the deepening of the struggle to full  independence.
 
Connolly's admonition of a 'carnival of reaction on both sides of the  
border' came to pass precisely because the poison of religious sectarianism had 
 
riven the country as a direct consequence of the hegemony of a transplanted  
loyalist ascendancy in the North. 
 
 
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