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Sunday 31 October 2010

With regards to that embarrassing Socialism

Dear fellow Irishmen, I shall be honest, we have had many embarrassing developments politically over the last few decades now haven't we? Oh there was that little hub-bub over the Nice treaty which we unanimously said "No!" followed by a muted "Oh alright then", followed again by another No and another Alright then to another little embarrassing treaty where we became a province of a nominally multinational empire.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that mean we have stepped back a century?

Now while I shall leave that sentence and all its implications hang in the air like an exposed buttocks for all the world to see and hopefully kick with an iron shod boot, a rusty one too if there's any justice in the world left at all, it is not what I have come to speak to you about. And oh no! You needed fret that I shall preach to you about that other little embarrassment in the forgotten province that you either ignore or harp on about for your convenience at election time, no no no, there'd be much too much vim and vigor to pour into that little tirade. No.

What I have come to talk to you about is the fact you have Che Guevera on the face of a Boron hanging from the walls of a Sinn Fein Office next to a picture of Micheal Collins.

Now, it boggles the mind that a Boron, the classical drum of the Irish people that makes frequent appearances at many an 'Old man's bar' and folk night at any club, should have the face of a revolutionary butcher who operated halfway across the world from Ireland imprinted on it like it was honourable. Oh now don't get me wrong I am all for decorating our venerable instruments with the images and icons of our heroes and cultural history. I am merely pointing out the fact of the matter that Che Guevera is neither and doesn't deserve to be placed on the same wall as an otherwise conservative Repub
lican Revolution, oh no no, they are two different breeds of person! Not to mention class. The fact is Michael Collins is Irish and had a place on that wall in plenty of contexts of Irish politics, but Che Guevera however, does not.
And neither does his Socialism.

Of course it must be state that socialists did indeed play a part in the Easter Rising, a small part in comparison to their religious and fervently Nationalist counterparts who served as their temporary allies on the road to Communism. After all, socialism recognises no borders and openly works to destroy all nations in pursuit of this glorious revolutionary goal, but the imperialists are the bigger enemy you know? The British Empire must be defeated before the Irish Nation can be properly disassembled and the Glorious Soviet Republic established, so let us tolerate the Nationalists for now. Or have you not read Marx? Engels? Lenin? No? Well how about those Embarrassingly red posters socialists place everywhere they can with their goals spelled out in plain English?


If you have not yet got what I am trying to say here is, there is no such thing as a Socialist Nationalist. As to claim to be such suggests a fairly frightening degree of cognitive Dissonance on your part.

This is because the destruction of Nationalism, and thus of all nations, countries, states, cultures, religions, henceforth and suchwith all aspects of human civilization and the establishment of the dictatorship of the Proletariat is the stated goals of every. single. socialist. organization. individual. club. social circle. newspaper. blog. forum. party. and anything else you can think of. The only difference is how they agree upon achieving it. Now, my question to you is how can one claim to be a Nationalist, but specifically, ESPECIALLY. An Irish Nationalist, someone who loves their nation, culture, community, family, history and identity to such a point as to take on an empire or glamorize the taking on of an empire, concede to a socialist form of government as being desirable? Oh I am not unaware of socialist support for all insurrectionist groups, including the Irish one, or did you forget that little bit about socialists tolerating their ideological enemies for the sake of convenience?

Or lets jump straight to the point and that is the now socialist party, Sinn Fein, I will not deny that they supported the IRA in the North during the troubles and this endears alot of Nationalists to them, oh this will seem scandalous to my monarchist friends, but I am addressing this open letter to my fellow Irish, many of whom know firsthand what I am talking about if they've been listening to Gerry's speeches lately. Have you noticed that Gerry and other Shinners have been saying they were working toward a United, Independent and Socialist Ireland? Wait a minute. When did any soldier, volunteer or whatever you personally like to call these fighters, join the IRA in the early 20th century to fight British Rule do so because they believed in Socialism? What famous ballads do nationalists sing about their fallen heroes sing about how they died for socialism and not instead for their people or for the freedom of their country? Did Michael Collins fight for socialism? Did DeVelera fight Collins for Socialism? Does the Declaration say we wanted Socialism? Does the Constitution? What manner of Irish History or Irish Character and demeanour suggests we would readily accept a communist state? For that is surely the end goal of all socialists.

Am I, because I am a Monarchist, not also an Irish Nationalist? Do I not wish for the re-unification of Ireland? For it to be Independent? A bastion of freedom fro the Irish People? I bloody well am and bloody well do!I would love nothing more for Ireland to be united, Strong too! It is why I place so much empathise on the Sovereign! Ireland cannot be a Sovereign Nation in the truest, purest sense without an Irish Sovereign for the Irish Nation. I would like nothing more for Ireland to be Free and Green!

Green. I wonder if that means anything anymore to those parasites.

And by this I mean if you claim you are a Socialist, it is not a Green flag you fly but a Red one.

If you harbour a wish for a socialist government, or support a socialist party openly while claiming to be a Nationalist, you are not one, you are a Socialist.

And if you are a Socialist, it means you truely, do support the destruction of the Irish Nation at the most fundamental of levels and the reconstruction of some alien beast foreign to the Irish Consciousness. You are not a Nationalist, you are a Socialist.

And that means you are a traitor.

It is time for Irishmen and Irishwomen, of all classes, north or south of the border, whatever province, whatever sensibilities, whatever opinion to wake up and realise you cannot be these two things, you cannot at once be a patriot, and support socialism and be considered an honest man objectively.

I will not commit the logical fallacy and say ''no true Irishman is a Socialist'', I will however say this truism, ''no true Irish patriot can be a Socialist''

Those who claim that they are are one of three things:
Hilariously un or misinformed, an ignorant prick, or a subversive liar.

I do not care if you share my sensibilities of the need for an Irish Crown, or believe Ireland should be the Christian Nation it has been for centuries, I care only you make up your damn mind and decide which flag waves upon the battlements of your heart. The Red, or the Green.

Slan go phoile

8 comments:

  1. There is a great deal of Irish politics that frankly baffles me, the fascination with socialism being only one of them. If there is one group of people who ought to know how precious the inviolable right to your own property and the fruit of your own labors is I would think it should be the Irish. If there is one group of people who ought to know the danger of those who seek their country to be simply one more cog in a larger wheel, I would think it should be the Irish. If there is one group of people in the world who should have every reason to be nationalists rather than internationalists it is the Irish.

    And there was, as I recall, at least one party in history that claimed to be 'Nationalist Socialists' and the judgement of history on them has been rather -severe.

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  2. I completely agree with you on the idiocy of people proclaiming socialism as the salvation of the Irish nation. The turning of we Irish towards the ideologies of republicanism, socialism and mass democracy was a desperate devil's bargain, a faustian pact we believed necessary to gain the power to destroy that which was dissolving us.

    Having delivered that power, the forces unleashed have turned on us and they will, eventually, complete the destruction of any meaningful, authentic nation bound to this island. These forces must be chained again. But how? Part of the problem is that we don't at present have a genuinely Irish right-wing/conservative/traditionalist movement to propound a rightist perspective that challenges the leftist viewpoint put forward both by those within the Irish media and those they choose to feature.

    I blame partly the continued split within what should be a natural conservative constituency as represented by Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, a split which, particularly with regard to Fine Gael, reflects a deep insecurity, a profound sense of inferiority vis a vis foreign powers (especially that one we know best) and an overall lack of national self-confidence. It's a constant fear of being seen as backward and provincial in the eyes of outsiders which compels the two biggest parties to avoid advancing a serious, well-grounded and authentic philosophy of Irish conservatism. Instead we get a strange, schizophrenic political elite. And the left takes advantage of this confusion and timidity, hijacking the traditional importance within Ireland of community and justice, and claiming it for socialism. That socialism, through its dogmatic universalist and egalitarian principles, will erase both justice and community in any real, organic sense is rarely mentioned, let alone challenged.

    Until we stop being embarrassed about asserting our own national interests - our own national being, in fact - and start ignoring - or better still, mocking - leftist attempts to beat us over the head with the 'shtick' of 'universal progress', we will continue to have this socialistic pabulum infecting every aspect of Irish public life and discourse.

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  3. We have socialist here in the US, who march every March as an "Irishman. Their name is Kennedy, Kerry, Daly, and O'Bama. My Sainted grandfather (A Boyle, from Donegal) is turning over in his grave.

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    1. Your sainted grandfather would be turning in his grave if he knew that you consider Obamaand Kerry socialists. In case you haven't realized in Ireland the democrats would be considered right of center. It's people like you that move the world further and further to the right tainting anything mildly left wing as socialism. Read a book

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    2. Wrong

      1. JFK fought against Communism unlike his successors who followed detente.

      2. Kerry is 100% Jewish not one bit Irish

      3. There is no proof of Obama's Irish ancestry. He isn't even American.

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  4. Kennedy has the benefit of genuinely being an Irish family to them, so they can call themselves Irish if they wish as much as their politics enrage me. I have always, ALWAYS ALWAYS despised Obama's claim to Irishness, one backwater ancestor does not an Irishman make, he isn't even quarter blood or eighth blood, the claim is purely political to enhance his ego and popularity while given the more air-headed Irishmen back here a sense of superiority that 'An Irishman is the most powerful man in the world again' This came to a head one St.Patrick's day where floats where made in several villages in Obama's Honour. I would've cried tears if I wasn't crying blood.

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  5. Actually, I don't like the way you use communism and socialism interchangeably. National Socialism was an example of both Nationalism and Socialism. That is, real Socialism.

    "The meaning of socialism is that life is dominated not by the contrast of rich and poor but by rank as determined by achievement and ability."-Oswald Spengler

    "We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism." - Gregor Strasser

    Nationalism and Socialism can be applied together in this way. Mussolini's Italian Fascism was also a fusion of Nationalism and Socialist ideas. I should also mention that Mussolini was a hardcore Marxist in his youth.

    In both states private property existed and was valued unlike Marxism, however with bussiness being supervised by the state rather than owned and controlled by the state.

    Both were very Nationalist, NS Germany more so, and both opposed Marxism vehemently, especially NS Germany.

    National Socialism wasn't just a workers movement or just an upper class movement, it didn't cater to any particular group interests, but it was a true peoples movement. It was for the interests of the nation as a whole. Or the Volk as they called it.

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  6. This really is stupid. If you want an example of a socialist nationalist, go to my blog at socialistnationalist.blogspot.co.uk

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