Nationalist economists down South.Mr. David Mc Williams

 Mr. David Mc Williams,the well-known copycat artiste,sees himself as the man of the moment preaching and hashing about Irish unity. This individual is the loquacious Free State a..ehole who suggested bringing in Latvian teachers to undermine teachers organisations and paying them Latvian rates of pay in his custom-made Banana Republic down South.

What sort of Irish unity is his idyll to be? 

The interests of farmer and townsman, tradesman and labourer, shopkeeper and customer,rich factory owner or landlord and worker and tenant cannot be united or truly reconciled in any sort of meaningful harmony. That is REALITY.

 His is the nationalist hashing of Dublin 4-types,Gardai,Irish Army sergeants, street-crawlers, the declassed Sinn Fein canaille, the farmers and those hardy annuals affiliated to a US-inspired paramilitary group whose apogee of political violence culminated thirty years before its political apogee. 

Mc Williams petite bourgeois scribbling in the Sunday Business Post is leading nowhere other than up a blind alley in terms of political adherence to modern civil and economic norms.

National democratic politics as represented by the policies of Fianna Fail and socialist democracy and Labour speak with a truer voice to modern Ireland than the literary meanderings of such nationalist scribblers.

 In terms of what they claim as their own unique policies,Sinn Fein are coat-tailing social democrats and the labour movement. As with street-crawlers,they are out for 'something cheap' or hawking old wares' and Mary Louise Mc Donald is only a fishwoman and street-caller.

Can Mc Williams not just go away and hide under a large tree and stop mixing with dangerous people who menace and threaten their political opponents?

This nationalist political model was based on political terror and vigilantee violence. The model for vigilantees is police menaces. 

A police state worked very thoroughly in Russia between 1919 and 1953 but the Soviet economy ran out of road in the 1980's. The contemporary allegations of technical incompetence levelled at the bureaucratic model of statehood,the Soviet Union,are completely out of touch with a mighty engine of socialist construction. That,those of you who look down on Communism,my merry gentlemen, is an incontrovertible fact of history. Ask the elderly Germans and ageing people of the East if you doubt my assessment.

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9.1.2024

Would Mc Williams type of bourgeois model, his 'updated,modernised' Sinn Fein in government be any better than Fianna Fail?

No. It would not because the country's long boom is at an end and the slieveen trick of purloining other countries' tax revenues will no longer finance structural development. In other word,money and goodwill would be in short supply.

Fianna Fail,1997-2008?

Recent capital  expansion underwrote the runaway inflation of domestic house prices and only allowed marginal gains in living standards for the working poor. There are no social improvements of lasting significance. A large part of the expanded lower (industrial) and higher (financial) capital expansion went to underwrite property development.

Fianna Fail 1992-7?

Reynolds grand initiative to create a low-tax economy in association with Ray Mc Sharry,Bertie Ahern and Charlie Mc Creevy amounted to financial pyramid schemes and a regurgitation of Thatcher's fickle economic certainties (when all three were not cooking the books). Nationalist politics boiled down to a piece of political haberdashery.

A realistic appraisal of economic change 

Ireland's industrial and economic growth was bankrolled not just by German and European Union fiscal support but by US industrial benevolence. That impetus was something bought at the cost of loss of American imperial treasure in blood,capital and technology.

 All went to a basket case country,an immature people and a government which received the accolade of international pariah. 

Why,so? 

Many factors but at the root of it lay Irish country people's hostility to change, cultural backwardness and the profound social maladjustment of its people.

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Mc Williams is the other cheek of Arthur Griffiths backside,Pádraig Pearse being the leading part of that rump.

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11.1.2024

In the same camp we find the fair weather friends of traditional republicanism.

Free State and middle class and lumpen proletarian literati such as Mc Cartan,Mc Corry and O Murchu have latched on to Sinn Fein like bloodsuckers. Those types are the declassed,the ambitious philistine and urban hick,the idiot thug and the cute hoor,not forgetting the small farmer type.

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Will people like middle-class scribblers gain traction?

Not in the North.

In the North,the ordinary decency of the average Sinn Feiner casts a pale shadow over Free State opportunists of the press type who indulge themselves with bourgeois philistinism articulated through the pages of the Sunday Business Post. The Troubles-era Southern Sinn Feiner was more an Irish Irelander with no connection to the working class movement other than 'helping out' at election time. (I am thinking in particular of a haveril from Clones,Seamus Treanor).

Modern times

The Southern worker has grown in maturity but is trapped in a small country with a sclerotic and chaotic working class movement.

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If,as many will,you favour a Sinn Fein candidate, don't vote in your other preferences for wishy-washy politicians with no roots in the working class who only appear at election time and have no popular  support on the ground. Those types are in all political parties and do not have any real love for the poor or low-paid and struggling workers.

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Mc Williams types

One thing every middle class nationalist hates is a socialist. He knows that he will pull away his political veil to reveal a money-grubbing,penny-pinching huckster. 

Putting  your money on the right horse is the main issue in the Irish freedom camp.  Antagonism has hung over Ireland since before the Dublin Lockout and still has a resonance for wage workers to this day. While conservative nationalism may have had an impress on the Free State before the Easter Rising, Connolly and Pearse dispelled the arcane myths of an Irish Nation.

Progress after the Blueshirt crisis?

Think what you will,the facts are clear. It was not Fine Gael or hole-and-corner nationalism conjured up on the back of a cigarette box but Fianna Fail which encouraged and managed social and economic development. Now,Sinn Fein have stepped into their stead.

Mc Williams and the Sunday Business Post?

IGNORE!

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Cliff Taylor of the Irish Times follows in the inimitable tradition of Paul Tansey,lionising businessmen and ignoring the cyclical nature of capitalist expansion.

Altogether,Southern economists are a load of unschooled gobshites advising and catering for news about matters which neither they not their audience are capable of understanding properly.

Why,so?

Censure of the truth in Ireland by ignorant,rough and unmannerly clerics and nuns and their clientele and a culture of police suppression of economic science.

What we have in the South behind all the unearned income and show around the centre of Dublin is a backward society and hole-and-corner nonsense about the man in the moon,so far away is social realism in the analysis of the very basis of modern society.

An escapist society built on false promises and milk and water reforms and papering over the accumulation of wealth and capital of the already well off.

The South is a society living on dreams that the gravy train of US investment and the blindsiding of other European countries tax authorities will continue indefinitely.

Other countries may not have Ireland's paper value but they run their affairs more evenhandedly.

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17.12.2024

Republicans are lost for ideas and cannot articulate themselves properly when faced with difficult questions of consensus and agreement or simple economic conundrums such as 'quantitative easing'.

They must turn to intelligent and educated people for assistance and because nationalists rule by brute force and intimidation of the lowest kind,namely blackmail,their patrons know better than to deny them guidance.

Unlike socialists however, when republicans have no further use for advisers of a certain, outdated type,they keep a watchful eye out for tacky recrimination directed at themselves and their group because like all socialist revolutionaries,they are by no stretch of the imagination a proper, functioning political party. Ireland's conditions and prevalent position of semi-colony do not allow for anything other than clandestine arrangements concerning policy formation.

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15.4.2025

We hear once again the calls of the Blueshirt outfit to enrich their wealthy friends. They are intent on delaying rises in the minimum wage in the Budget.

Look around you,good people of Dublin,at your bled-dry society.

Go down to James Street and observe.

At the perimeter of the tax incentive areas are there any signs of renewal or reconstruction of wasted and derelict properties?

NONE! None whatsoever,not as much as a single building or work of renovation.

Look around Dublin. Unless there was a double tax write-off,nothing was built.

And...

...in many areas well away from the capital,there are large swathes of unneeded houses slowly going to wrack and ruin after being thrown up in a fury of overdevelopment and speculative greed.

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The South is a society where since the fall of "actually existing socialism" more and more wealth is concentrated in every fewer hands.

The Just Society of Garret Fitzgerald's imagination?

It is his party and Fianna Fail which are responsible for the unbearable misery and suffering of the poor and marginalised.

Take a deep breath and think,good people of the South.

Are you better off than under the colonial oppressor? Is a so-called oppositionist party of old menopausal clothes horses any better?

Think intelligently and ponder where an almost threefold expansion of employment from 1.1 million in 1990 to 2.8 million today has left you. Many have made a killing. Unfortunately facts and figures on the economy are presented in appealing terms.

However all things are relative. Think not how much ca. €200 is worth when you go abroad but how much it buys you in comparison to pounds sterling.

Purchasing power parities,therefore.

Nobody wants the hated English back (and they are hated wherever they go) but is it not fair to say that Irish independence and national self-government have been a failure for the overwhelming majority of the population?

Wake up,your wealth is being exported to a country which claims that it owns the rights to the internet, accessible web design,mobile phone and MRI scanner,claims which are manifestly untrue.

Do not listen to a halfwit such as Cliff Taylor or David Mc Williams talking nonsense about industries pulling out. Those people and government advisers are not competent in macroeconomics. They should be given a large amount of laxatives to find what has made their bellies like those of poisoned pups. When they are at it,those handing out the suppositories should give them to puffed-up powder pastry types such as doctors, politicians and lawyers and Gardai....

It is time for a fundamental change of direction and that starts by rejecting right-wing poison such as that put down by the Sunday Business Post,Irish Times,Sunday Independent,Cork Examiner and "Irish" Daily Mail.

Making improvements for the majority?

Start by studying the real workings of the capitalist process of accumulation and economic cycles,and the outstanding features of real 'living' capital and 'dead' capital.

Morons parading around in pin stripe suits and expensive sports jackets are best ignored.

The US wants back what is theirs,that which is not stolen,and nobody and nothing is going to stop them.

Think again about your general direction, Southerners,and don't allow the US to take what does not belong to it when it begins to retract on its post-1948 commitments as retract it must if its society and economy and system of government is to remain viable. 

Remember that what does NOT belong to you,does NOT belong to you and must be shared with others since I have surrendered my intellectual property rights to what I came up with. 

You were TOO greedy,Free Staters!

You have been gluttons for new investment, Southerners,and have not improved your social situation in an equal and fair manner. You must now part with a lot of your ill-gotten goods so that your benefactor can remain solvent.

That's REAL economics not the shite you believe in from reading lachrymose journalism and talking hyperinflated nonsense about matters you do not have the intellect or training to understand.

For you,my friends,the long boom is over.

The origins of capitalism.Marx on America,Lenin on imperialism.Hadden on Venice

 Marx in his epigrammatic brilliance circumnavigating Capital,wrote in his preparatory Grundrisse in 1856-1858,that capitalism could be dated at the discovery of America i.e.1492. He wrote that this was what created capitalism,namely,the world market. However, in 1916, Lenin wrote in Imperialism,the Highest Stage of Capitalism that imperialism was characterised primarily by the export of capital and monopolies in industry and finance, particularly Britain where he enumerated 2 000 000 rentiers and "coupon-clippers". However has not every businessman sought to eliminate competition and store up wealth?

But,it is in Early Venice as our own Irish socialist,Professor Tom Hadden,writes in Company Law and the Origin of Capitalism that agency, seafaring, trade and profit-sharing emerged earlier than Columbus.. Perhaps,it is in agency that rests the origin of capitalism and,then again,I would date capitalism as a mighty,if already extant,form of manufacture,finance,trade,state and empire as late as The Limited Liability Act 1867. While any definite date or decisive period would mislead,the question of origins entails that consolidation occurred then,no earlier. But it might well be rejoindered that origins,decisive origins, are in agency, family, partnership and army and empire and war long feature before the state as the greatest burden on the human condition,not private property or a thoroughly regulated system of share ownership.

8.6.2021

As for Harry Truman's and JFK'S theories of the "military-industrial complex" at work in America in the 1950's and 1960's soaking up dead capital,the reply is given by Willy Cumming,a devoted socialist in the modern vein, namely,"People have always spent money on weapons." or,if you don't like that, take it from Clement Attlee,"The first duty of every country is to defend itself."

The question of rich and poor?

There have always been rich and poor...read the Bible...

Ultraleftism. The "scientific socialists"...their Irish counterparts connection to thugs and criminals

With regards to the main protagonists in the advance from ape to man in Western societies,two prominent names stand out. Those names are Marx and Lenin. Also featuring prominently is Marx's literary executor, Friedrich Engels.

There are many leading facts to be discovered about Marx and Engels which iconoclasts reject.

Marx and Engels hijacked the English labour movement in the 1860's. They were left behind by the Germans at the 1875 Unity Conference and Engels rejected the demands which have become the basic tenets of modern socialism in the discussions on the Erfurt Programme of the German Social Democratic Party in 1891.

 In the 1840's Marx and Engels hoisted themselves  up on the back of the Communist League and created what became a great schism by forcing out the Christians such as Weitling. Weitling's emigration to the US gave rise to a constant cycle of packed meetings, conspiracies, showboating,rigged ballots,political grandstanding,verbal abuse and rhetorical handstands in trade union circles,all the trademarks of their ultraleft sects not political parties of the working class.

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Ireland,today

Modern "scientific" socialists talk from ignorance, not knowledge of the economic, political, literary and moral life. These self-styled Communists are hostile to the real labour movement and its working class leaders,adrift on a sea of old ideological garbage.

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Britain,today

Trade unionists are usually middle-of-the-road in politics. While bolshy at times,they can be incentivised with higher wages to be more flexible and give way to employers demands for higher productivity.

Ireland,today

The "scientific socialists" attempt to hoist themselves up onto the back of workers and claim the credit for the actions of  others. Each and every one of them is at least a backslider and a curmudgeon,the road to no town. The Pbp group are a case in point. Inspired by old books that should be thrown out, this group is moving into the place allotted to it in a slabbering contest in the South.

The rival groups. Populists

In the North Sinn Fein's vote fell from 227 000 in the Assembly elections to 175 000 in the last local elections. Their core vote has been declining since its highpoint in the 2010's.

PBP,Sinn Fein and the people who inspire them such as the Workers Party are the mortal foes of any democratic socialist government. (The opportunists and the populists never give the poor and working man his say in public affairs. They say that rival parties exist by and thrive on media spin. Sinn Fein are often accused of intimidation).

 Only a minority of the traditional Irish party of opposition,the republicans, endeavour to help the thinking public with any success. Most of them resort to mob violence when their poverty of ideas is publicised.

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Why the marginalisation of ultraleftists? 

It is their own doing. The democrats present themselves to the electorate regularly. Those who hope for a class-based revolution go by the name of modern-day Communists. They do not.

The active Communists number 11 throughout the island of Ireland. Barry Murray, Eugene Mc Cartan and Tommy Mc Kearney are irrelevant. In their perorations, they are blowing soap bubbles out of their backsides. In Ireland these Stalinists (or Communists) have always been irrelevant apart from to trade union officials. 

The eccentricities of the Communists everywhere do not matter to anyone who is possessed of even a modicum of common decency. They go around trying to hook young people and send the disgruntled affiliate into the arms of the jailer when he refuses to supply them with information that they intend to sell to the Gardai.

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To bigger questions

What can be rescued from the body of Marxist pedagogy on capitalism?

Marx's studies brilliantly characterised the dawn of the industrial movement.

 In his own lifetime, Marx's influence was dimmed by German Social Democrats and English trade unionists. On the anarchist spectrum,his legacy was largely obscured by Bakunin and Kropotkin.

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Marxism in the rearview mirror? Democratic socialism vs. Marx's political invention? The dictatorship of the proletariat?

 History has shown that after much political debate and discussion,a law-governed state is not compatible with the dictatorship of the working class. 

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31.5.2022

The big picture? Moscow literature?

Until the advocates of Marxism and sellers of Marxist literature in Ireland make a fulsome apology to those who they have insulted, threatened and had arrested- I am referring to Colm Bryce,Kevin Weinberg and Dickie Cusick,not forgetting Eugene Mc Cartan and the little Miss Red Riding Hoods of various parties and none-the real socialists,the democratic  socialists,cannot mend their fences with these representatives of a past age. 

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Hidden agenda. After the Deluge,1991

In all societies the tiny groups of rebels and revolutionary socialists are front-groups for diplomatic and economic espionage and technical theft. The PBP and CPI micro-groups are front groups for foreign predators such as British Military Intelligence  and Chinese interests. These tiny organisations should be put under the strictest scrutiny since they trade information to their foreign sponsors for payment in drugs and guns. The latter they use to fund their activities,a pattern established by socialist republicans.

PBP/MI 6

If people who have entered this country under false pretences such as Kostick- in his case,to conduct financial and technical espionage- do not go back to where they came from,they must be interned. The greatest proportion of these agents of Britain come from the North of England and the Indian subcontinent.

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1.4.2023

The real working class movement 

When we hear Communists and their fellow travellers such as PBP and listen to their collective criticisms of the real working class movement,we say,"Now we see you in your true colours,neither democrats nor socialists, but semi-anarchist and pro-imperialist elements intent on sowing the seeds of economic ruin. You are harbingers of a change which will never come not least because you in your tiny groups styling themselves political parties do not want real change or actual improvements in the lives of those who you purport to speak on behalf of. That change would render you irrelevant to their needs. Address your remarks to your diminishing band of followers and leave me and my friends out of your grandiose schemes. You do not speak for me or anyone who I know."

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12.2.2024

The Marxist project,1858

Marx in Foundations of Political Economy (see Introduction,Grundrisse,1856-8) set out to write six different works. 

In the event he left only Volume 1 of Capital. That book focuses on the materialist conception of history, labour conditions,the origins and spread of industry,the profit motive,money and the accumulation of capital.

But regardless of the political, social and economic phantasmagoria of public life, there are many other dimensions of human life and social existence other than the former social Darwinism and historical materialism.

Many more?

Yes,but a salve for those who seek redemption and salvation in dusty old tomes....

The Old Mole (as he called himself) with his description of capital accumulation and writings which embrace the best working descriptions of political discontent and working class hostility to the rich,not forgetting his dialectical materialism, discovered many of the key aspects of modern social existence and historical development.

 Just because he cannot sit on our shoulders to give us political advice today does not mean that his writings are wrong in economic, historical or philosophical terms. However,we must approach them with caution because  they are deterministic.

The political legacy of Marxism has greatly diminished. People like myself believe in the legal and constitutional rights of man.The Rights of Man (with apologies to Tom Paine) are something the Germans and Russians might not respect but other countries put them at the centre of their way of life.

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An apologia pro vitae eius

Despite their heartless outlooks, practices and ideas some scientific socialists are good-hearted. I am thinking of seasoned old campaigners on the moderate spectrum such as Kieran Allen and Willy Cumming but we cannot get away from the fact that theirs is a callous, inhuman and degrading ideology no better in its workings than slavery. 

A relationship of enslavement was precisely what the Russians found themselves in almost immediately after the consolidation of "the dictatorship of the proletariat". With the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in November  1918 came the autocracy of first Lenin then the rabid dungmongering of Trotsky. That was succeeded by the Stalin Terror.

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Some words of advice 

If you become entangled in the snares of Communists or the ideology of Stalinism and atheistic Bolshevism, consult a priest for guidance and absolution since it is a grave moral error requiring the Sacraments.

Revolutionary socialists and Communists sow division and hatred. Their enemy is the family and they seek to destroy the family and the church. They bring ruin not just to themselves but to others and to those who vote for them.

My advice is to vote Labour,social democrat or for a democratic candidate who stands for election regularly and at least goes to Mass or a place of worship occasionally.

Revolutionary socialism belongs to what is known as a place of rabid over-the-top shouting and bawling such as a marketplace. There the din of a thousand voices contend,a tower of Babel. 

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28.4.2024

Amongst the dated concepts of revolutionary socialism is the inevitability of a dictatorship of the proletariat. 

Why do we call out this joint aim of the dolemen,petite bourgeois intelligentsia and French and Irish cutthroats?

Because social and working conditions are immeasurably better today in Britain and Ireland than in the  nineteenth century. The recidivists fall down in non-engagement with the political process, that being organised elections. True socialists (German socialists) sit on the fence and talk vaguely about trade unions,a topic they have little knowledge of. They claim to see themselves as in solidarity with every Tom,Dick and Harry who ever lifted a spade but have little knowledge of the working life. Nihilistic ideaisation leads to contempt for real politics. These people are part of an endangered species of rarefied old fairy godmother. 

Syndicalism and the Irish Communists

The CPI version of syndicalism in the 1930's gave way to the hole and corner reformism of the Irish Labour Party. This labour stew ferments into fringe journalism noone other than Indian fakirs take as coming from the heart.

Bon litterateurs!

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The heart of the matter is that...

...the business of the Communist Party of Ireland is espionage,not politics. Even the fickle substance of Dick Spring's rhetoric appears potent in contrast to the silly grandstanding and idle nitpicking.

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The Communist model for Ireland of the type of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has nothing to commend it. The Communists spend their long hours in public houses gathering titbits to be fed to the Gardai and British Embassy in Dublin. 

The financial mainstay of these Stalinist irredentists is payment for informing MI 6 and the British Army about republicans and dissidents. Mc Cartan has been doing so since 1969.  Rarely does the truth become clear so practiced are the 'scientific socialists' in covering their tracks. In the case of O Murchu he stooped to murder on behalf of British Military Intelligence in 1974.

The British Army and their friends do not want political engagement by Irish people or civil rights protests or working class democracy. Irish nihilists perpetuate their apolitical views.

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The current crop of "socialist" vanguardists?

We say to a bast... like Mc Cartan and his Garda handlers and the ex-British Army sergeant majors,"Not even you believe your empty rhetoric. You and the members of your tiny group are threatening and menacing corner-boys whose idea of politics is having someone evicted and sent back to the North,put out of a job or attacked with a cutthroat razor, knuckle-duster or breeze block. You'll die with your tongue hanging out for want of a drink. That is all you were paid for your proletarian exertions on behalf of British Military Intelligence and the dogends of society attracted to you and your affiliates."

As regards the other end of the CPI who claim the mantle of Connolly,democrats say that they are semi-anarchists drawn from the scum of all classes. 

The game has moved on past even the Irish trades unions to a society based on the primacy of politics,The Just Society.

Political engagements deliver social security, pensions, education, policing,roads,social supports, public and private housing and regulation. 

We say to the tinpot dictators and honorary proletarians,"The German statist model has been superceded and abolished in the West and East respectively."

Trade union government?

Very desirable BUT trade unionists don't give a hoot about the poor. When the levels of absolute poverty reached critical levels under Thatcher,Bush and Blair, real politicians had to step in and regulate the body politic by ironing out social differences.

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Trade unions

Always good but the classic totalitarian model of "scientific socialism" was a society largely run by trade unions.

 Sane people say that the totalitarian model ignores the poor. It has bitten the dust in every country in the world.

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Scientific socialists are people with no proper grounding in any field. They are people who do not know who their fathers were. Because of having had no authority figure in early life they have no standards to measure themselves by. They are cast adrift early and usually come a cropper early on in life. Those who were their role models are long dead.

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1.7.2024

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9.7.2024

Wherever you find 'scientific' socialists or communists,you find also a client affiliate or focus group for the native police. They cannot live without police approval because it is the police who have the power to curtail their activities and force them to dissolve their group and to hand over their assets to their creditors. Their creditors invariably are many and include the taxman.

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2.2.2025

So-called Communists have done irreparable harm to the working class cause in Ireland by tying workers interests to the coattails of national democracy.

They do not see that national unity will come and old reactionary influences and out-of-date social formations fade with time.

Every time Communists are given the spotlight and allowed on to a podium and handed the microphone,they go off at a tangent to back groups which are semi-criminal and resort to thuggery, groups which are modelled on the Italian mafia.

Ignore Communists in Ireland,both them and those who they tell you to vote for. Tiny groups of ultra-leftists such as the Communists don't support anything objectively true and socially progressive.