Taken from Home Thrusts (23 Sept. 1899).

Taken from Dublin and the War - Diary of the Troubles (1899).

"We Irish are today the only working class in Europe who are not in revolt against the slavery of the capitalist system; we are the only people with whom the highest ambition in life is to get a good wage from their masters; we are the only people who have not risen intellectually to a conception of what life might be without masters; we are the only people, outside of England, who are trade unionists only in the shop, but become the veriest lackeys of our masters at the political ballot box; and we would all die for the freedom of our country, yet would continue that country in the hands of employers and landlords, who could at their will refuse us the right to live upon it."

#irishpeople #country

Taken from Home Thrusts (1900).

- Recognises class distinctions
- Recognises national/ethnic distinctions

It's not one or the other.

Taken from Difficulties of Capitalism (16 June 1900).

In this case I believe Connolly was using the term "race" to refer to all of humanity, judging by the rest of the article not being specific to Ireland. The important take away from this is the fact that he understood that different groups/Peoples have "varying characters", and that the blank slate idea that Liberalism espouses, and our modern SJW type socialism, is incorrect.

The following quotes (broken into smaller messages for convenience) are from The Coming Generation (1900).

"You rear your child up to love its country, and you support a social system which declares that the child has no right to the country, but must pay for permission to live on it as it is the property of private individuals."

#children #country

"You shout for liberty, and you surrender your children to the mercies of capitalism which will seize them as soon as they leave school, and will devote their little bones, muscles and undeveloped brains to the task of grinding out profits for a boss."

#children

"Are you doing your duty? Love Ireland! Yes, if by ‘Ireland’ you mean not only the earth and the waters, but the men and the women, the boys and the girls – the people of Ireland, in fact."

#Irishpeople

"Ireland without her people is nothing to me, and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for ‘Ireland’, and can yet pass unmoved through our streets and witness all the wrong and the suffering, the shame and the degradation wrought upon the people of Ireland, aye, wrought by Irishmen upon Irishmen and women, without burning to end it, is, in my opinion, a fraud and a liar in his heart, no matter how he loves that combination of chemical elements which he is pleased to call ‘Ireland’."

#Irishpeople

"...win for them a right to live in that country, a right to enjoy its beauties, and revel in its abundance, irrespective of the wishes of any employer or landlord."

#children #country

"...the right of citizenship, the right to live in the country, and the right to enjoy those fruits of labour the country will yield to its children.

That is the reward you should render the children for their love of country; win the country for them and leave it behind you as theirs to enjoy free and unfettered – neither under the heel of foreign tyrant, nor yielding disguised tribute to native slave driver."

#children #country

"You are neglecting your duty as long as you allow your City Hall to be in the power of men who as landlords derive their living from the rents they extort...

You are traitor to your duty as long as you elect to Parliament the members of a political party which... is officered, managed and financed by that same class – the landlords of our city slums."

#irishtraitor

This last quote should remind you that one in four of our elected representatives is a landlord, creating a conflict of interest between their duty to the Irish people and their own desire for personal gain.

"...making the Irish people really and fully the owners of Ireland, which is what is meant by an

IRISH SOCIALIST REPUBLIC."

#irishpeople

Taken from Wood Quay Ward, To The Electors (1900).

To anyone watching the channel but not engaging in discussion, this is an open invite to voice your opposing views. We welcome debate and it could be an opportunity to find some common ground between nationalists and the various socialist and republican groups that comprise the left.

"If a man takes a farm from which a tenant has been evicted, he is tightly called a traitor, but who ever heard or read of the capitalist Home Rule press of this country saying a hard word about the scabs who go in on a strike or lockout, even when those scabs were imported, as was the case during the tailors’ lock-out, the saddlers’ strike, or the engineers’ lock-out? If the men who were imprisoned for threatening black-legs during the engineers’ lock-out had been engaged in a dispute over farms, we would have been told that they were 'patriots suffering for their country.' But as they were only workmen fighting for their class interests, we were told by the Home Rule newspapers that they were 'misguided individuals.' "

#irishtraitor #scab

Taken from Wood Quay Ward, Election Address (1903).