The Irish Left have realised they are losing their claim on James Connolly. They accuse nationalists of historical revisionism and cherry picking quotes to make Connolly out to be something he was not. The truth is the exact opposite. These accusations are projections of something they are guilty of. They are the ones who cherry pick the obvious nationalist sentiments in his writings in order to omit them from his legacy while twisting his views to suit their own modern day interpretation of "socialism", one which Connolly himself would not recognise or adopt.

It is time to destroy the SJW's illusion of Connolly's views once and for all and lay out the truth, leaving them with a choice to either accept it or disavow him for his own words. James Connolly was a socialist. James Connolly was a Nationalist.

The aim of this channel is to gather relevant information to use against the left specifically on the topic of Connolly in one place. To start with, I will be going through his writings and posting quotes that outline clearly the inherent nationalism of his views. The text will be posted so it can be turned into memes/graphics. I'll use bold&italics for the quotes so they stand out when scrolling and put sources in a separate message for easy copying/pasting.

This is a small fight in the culture war that we can win, because we are already winning it.

#top

I'll be combing his stuff in chronological order usually but for now here's a quote from the end of his life and we'll go full circle. Wounded and awaiting execution he told his family:

Both quotes above are taken from Irish Socialist Republican Party (1896)

The following quotes are from Socialism and Nationalism (1897).

"In Ireland at the present time there are at work a variety of agencies seeking to preserve the national sentiment in the hearts of the people.

These agencies, whether Irish Language movements, Literary Societies or Commemoration Committees, are undoubtedly doing a work of lasting benefit to this country in helping to save from extinction the precious racial and national history, language and characteristics of our people."

#irishpeople #irishrace

"When you talk of freeing Ireland, do you only mean the chemical elements which compose the soil of Ireland? Or is it the Irish people you mean? "

#irishpeople

"The Socialist who would destroy, root and branch, the whole brutally materialistic system of civilisation, which like the English language we have adopted as our own, is, I hold, a far more deadly foe to English rule and tutelage, than the superficial thinker who imagines it possible to reconcile Irish freedom with those insidious but disastrous forms of economic subjection – landlord tyranny, capitalist fraud and unclean usury; baneful fruits of the Norman Conquest, the unholy trinity, of which Strongbow and Diarmuid MacMurchadha – Norman thief and Irish traitor – were the fitting precursors and apostles. "

#usury #Norman #irishtraitor

"If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

England would still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs."

#blood #martyrs

"Nationalism without Socialism – without a reorganisation of society on the basis of a broader and more developed form of that common property which underlay the social structure of Ancient Erin - is only national recreancy.

It would be tantamount to a public declaration that our oppressors had so far succeeded in inoculating us with their perverted conceptions of justice and morality that we had finally decided to accept those conceptions as our own, and no longer needed an alien army to force them upon us.

As a Socialist I am prepared to do all one man can do to achieve for our motherland her rightful heritage – independence"

#nationalism #alien #motherland

This is actually the majority of the article broken up into small chunks for ease of use.

"What is Patriotism? Love of country, someone answers. But what is meant by ‘love of country’? “The rich man,” says a French writer, “loves his country because he conceives it owes him a duty, whereas the poor man loves his country as he believes he owes it a duty.” The recognition of the duty we owe our country is, I take it, the real mainspring of patriotic action; and our ‘country’, properly understood, means not merely the particular spot on the earth's surface from which we derive our parentage, but also comprises all the men, women and children of our race whose collective life constitutes our country’s political existence."

#patriotism #country #irishrace