Re: [Marxism] Celtic tiger dead, RoI back to third world status

[Gary MacLennan <gary.maclennan1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dom,

Interesting times are they not? The criminality and corruption and
incompetenceof capitalist modernity in Ireland is quite something. I wonder
though about the transition out of this stage to a revolutionary one.

For sure there are short term opportunities for anti-systemic propaganda but
other forms of resistance will take longer I think.  Though of course no one
knows at all what could happen.

For the moment everyone seems to be heading towards the pump to prime like
bejeezuss, except as you say in countries like Ireland where there the state
does not have the revenue.  Does that not return us to the situation where
there will be a stronger welfare state in the North as opposed to the South
of Ireland?

The collapse of the Southern economy will be music to the ears of the
North's loyalists, will it not? How that plays out in terms of the naitonal
quesiton is of course another mystery.  And what about Sinn Fein?  Will
their politics respond to the capitalist crisis? If so - how?

comradely regards

Gary
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