"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).

Taken from Wages, Marriage and the Church (1904).

"We all know how insidiously writers like Bebel, Bax and others have striven to link Socialism with hostility to the monogamic marriage system...

'... is it not queering Socialism to take ... the position that justifies the notion that the sexual or matrimonial question is a cardinal Socialist question, when, in fact, Socialism has nothing to do with it.'

The italics are mine, but the words as quoted are Comrade DeLeon’s own. In them he exactly voices my sentiments."

All three above quotes taken from Wages and Other Things (1904).

"I personally reject every attempt, no matter by whom made, to identify Socialism with any theory of marriage or sexual relations."

#marriage

Taken from Connolly's Defence (1904).

This quote is a succinct explanation of a topic that is discussed in detail in the last few articles. It is abundantly clear that Connolly viewed socialism as a purely economic/societal theory and did not appreciate it being conflated with it or used to promote other issues.

These are all part of The Connolly - DeLeon Controversy.

The following quotes are taken from Irish Socialist Republic, To The Irish People (1896 repub. 1908).

"...the struggle for Irish freedom has two aspects: it is national and it is social. Its national ideal can never be realized until Ireland stands forth before the world, a nation free and independent. It is social and economic; because no matter what the form of government may be, as long as one class own as their private property the land and instruments of labor, from which all mankind derive their subsistence, that class will always have it in their power to plunder and enslave the remainder of their fellow creatures. Its social ideal, therefore, requires the public ownership by the Irish people of the land"

#nation #irishpeople

"The party which would aspire to lead the Irish people from bondage to freedom must then recognize both aspects of the long-continued struggle of the Irish Nation. Such a party is the newly-formed Irish Socialist Republican Party. In its resolve to win complete separation from all connection with the British Empire, and the establishment of an Irish Socialist Republic, it embodies to the full the true Irish ideal – an independent nation with a social-democratic organization of society, thus adapting to the altered environment of the nineteenth century the vital principle of common ownership of the means of life which inspired the Brehon laws of our ancient forefathers."

#nation #irishpeople

"...help us to blend the twin streams of National and Industrial Freedom into one irresistible torrent, sweeping all obstacles before it, and bearing grandly onward on its bosom the toiling millions of the Irish race"

#nation #irishrace

For the day (and tweet) that it is, taken from Unpatriotic? (1903).