Anyone who considers themselves on left but balks at label ‘nationalist’, in Irish context, really wants to catch on & read some national liberation theory. Yes, nationalism can be chauvinist & bourgeois. But in anti-colonial struggle for self-determination- it’s fully justified.
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Replying to @JoeEDwyer
Those who conflate nationalism of the liberation type (Ireland, Palestine, Cuba, Basque, Algeria et al) with nationalism that is right-wing ethnic chauvism are on the same wavelength as those who say Hitler was a socialist. They're for the watchin.
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Replying to @SeanConnolly67 @JoeEDwyer
Absolutely spot on, such an intensely lazy move, and as clear a political tell as any
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