Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 2, 2019 14:21:34 GMT
There is an excellent article in the Burkean by one Ciaran Brennan, commenting on the pointlessness of today's Irish republicanism:
By justifying their nationalism in socialist terminology from the 1960s, republicanism signed its own death warrant in the decades to come. The fact that the President of Sinn Féin has to apologise for the phrase “England out of Ireland,” or be open to the British flag flying over Leinster House points how atrophied republicanism is getting. Its very own progressive logic is eating itself.
A United Ireland under Sinn Féin or any of the current constitutional parties would merely be a jurisdictional change. To paraphrase James Connolly, if the Green or more than likely LGBT flag is raised over Stormont tomorrow, globalism would still rule Ireland through the globalist institutions that contemporary republicanism fails to challenge.
A young relative of my own has recently declared his allegiance to the National Party, much to the dismay of his family. I had no idea this person harboured any such inclinations, or had any political views whatsoever. Perhaps we can hope that the younger generation are seeing through both globalism and globalist Irish republicanism.
As I've mentioned in previous threads, I myself believe that the salvation of Irishness, if possible, rests in cultural nationalism rather than political nationalism. But the political "nationalism" of Sinn Féin isn't even coherent.
By justifying their nationalism in socialist terminology from the 1960s, republicanism signed its own death warrant in the decades to come. The fact that the President of Sinn Féin has to apologise for the phrase “England out of Ireland,” or be open to the British flag flying over Leinster House points how atrophied republicanism is getting. Its very own progressive logic is eating itself.
A United Ireland under Sinn Féin or any of the current constitutional parties would merely be a jurisdictional change. To paraphrase James Connolly, if the Green or more than likely LGBT flag is raised over Stormont tomorrow, globalism would still rule Ireland through the globalist institutions that contemporary republicanism fails to challenge.
A young relative of my own has recently declared his allegiance to the National Party, much to the dismay of his family. I had no idea this person harboured any such inclinations, or had any political views whatsoever. Perhaps we can hope that the younger generation are seeing through both globalism and globalist Irish republicanism.
As I've mentioned in previous threads, I myself believe that the salvation of Irishness, if possible, rests in cultural nationalism rather than political nationalism. But the political "nationalism" of Sinn Féin isn't even coherent.
