A politically dangerous and entirely selfish course is being plotted by some in Ireland...

The vultures are gathering over the endowments of the past Russian internationalists to Irish leftists. The relevance of socialism to any situation is that many political and industrial matters can not be amicably resolved. In situations of great suffering of the poor,the strike weapon and revolutionary violence must be brought into play. 

The Irish Leninists and their sympathisers who want to wrap up their tent-I am referring to socialists and revolutionary syndicalists- are in grave error if they hope to leave a lasting legacy of revolutionary change after their departure.

Post-Fall. Marx? Lenin?

The Western world should remember that by applying themselves to the study of revolution and social organisation, Marx and Lenin did a lot of good too. They led great political and economic change though some Jews,West Africans,Irish Catholics and English Catholics might find Marx's writings deeply offensive.

What would be the effects of Communist parties calling it a day? 

Notwithstanding childish blunders and iconoclasm ('otzovism' , God-building, Lenin, 1911-3) that outcome would be a bodyblow to the trade union movement.

Some people complain too much, like myself. Others insisted in the past that revolutionaries brush up their act. By taking that viewpoint,we were and are perhaps engaging in what may have been a short-sighted and dangerous folly. 

My bon mot for the imminent break-up of the Soviet Union was, "Soviet socialism must die so that World Communism can live". Material conditions lay at the root of the democratic revolution and are ever more relevant to contemporary society. By 1989,due to economic crisis Soviet socialism had arrived at its final destination. The political turnaround was founded on a developmental change in attitudes to property rights. 

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Internationalism. National democracy. Lessons for contemporary left-wing parties

The CPSU and its clientele needed to be brought to their senses and brought to realise that national democracy and change comes from within a country,not a tawdry bookshop in socialist occupation in the West offering some basic "flu remedy" leading to social polarisation or relative industrial decline.

In my 'world play' of July-August 1988 (Der Spielplan ,July-August,Dublin) I was taken to have missed the whole point. However,no country bears out better the truths of scientific socialism when set against a rapidly expanding world market,those truths being that "It's money that matters," and the world market forms property relations.

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4.7.2021

Socialist unity

Can collective socialist party names in Ireland not be reshaped to one comprehensive party name on the left such as Labour and the sectarian spirit be given over for socialist unity.

That can only occur after the departure of Irish Secret Service agents such as Mc Cartan and every party's retinue of fair weather friends and bon litterateurs. 

Party names and long antiquated titles could be abandoned,the tasks of social democracy and industrial equity renewed and the march of collective progress begin again in a spirit of tolerance, respect and the abandonment of peculiar dogmas.

11.7.2021

Playing Devil's Advocate for the Soviet Union 

Some redeeming characteristics of Communists must be mentioned at the risk of encouraging their hangers-on to come at the unsuspecting with cut-throat razors in their hand.

Communists are foes of entrenched interests, the privileged and the rich. They aren't  afraid to "answer their betters back" ("Der Spielplan", July-August 1988). 

When they have strong-willed, well-educated, mentally agile leaders they can confound the forces of populism and confront social backwardness and raise the poor to great heights to mark anyone's card and allow working people to throw brickbats at the housewives' choice of the day. (Women were the main obstacle to change.In the 1980's Margaret Thatcher was their "paragon of virtue").

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20.1.2022

The differences on the left in Britain

To be an English Labour voter,you only need to understand what a "toff" or snob is. If you vote socialist,you  recognise the difference, the fundamental difference,between rich and poor. A communist or revolutionary socialist believes that the fundamental means by which the capitalist system emerged was the organised,as distinct from the random,use of violence and repression.

World movements

Unlike pedantic nuisances such as middle  class writers,a real revolutionary is prepared to do something about an unhappy social situation.

7.7.2022

Enter the clowns

A false dichotomy has been created in Irish Communist circles between Irish Military Intelligence agents and MI5 gangsters,those hoodlums whose only interest is in liquidating the Communist Party of Ireland and embezzling its assets. I am referring to Mc Cartan and O Murchu.

The orders are coming from fascists in the PSNI and Gardai Central Detective Unit in Dublin Castle.

The ultimate 'experts' in creating this false dichotomy are the Federal Bureau of Investigation,a bunch of drug addicts taking their orders from Joe Biden and imperialists who want to extinguish the light of human freedom,knowledge and democratic politics.