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.
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...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.
