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Does Harry Hutchinson consider himself a socialist? He is, I assume, one of those who considers the bank manager to be a fellow worker who lives by selling his labour. I will not get into a deep discussion about structuralism and the "co-ordinator class". Instead I will refer you to Michael Albert's Parecon site.
In Northern Ireland we have "peculiar arrangements". A middle class has been engineered in Mid-Ulster. These people bear no resemblance to the description above which refers to the working class. Such despair is painfully apparent in the Lower Ormeau; thus the epidemic of drug crime.
What can be seen five nights a week in the Holyland is the rampage of those who are privileged, arrogant and bigoted. It was not the lost generation that rioted last Tuesday. It was a middle-class of nihilistic ethnic chauvinists.
Harry Hutchinson would do well to get his facts straight before firing off his words of wisdom to the Irish News.
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at least hes a real journalist.
He can spell too.
You read the Irish News? Even though it's predominately Catholic?
As an atheist I read many papers. If you've read my blog profile you will see I'm a Connolly Socialist from West Belfast.
"I'm a Connolly Socialist from West Belfast." Alan would you mind posting a blog or putting up a post on Connolly Socialism. Sounds interesting and I would like to read a bit about it
Connolly's one of my heroes (the other two being Anauran Bevan and Noam Chomsky). I have his collected works in the house and, in my youth, was inspired by his lucid analysis of the Ireland of his day.
"Let us free Ireland" is undoubtedly one of the most profound things I have ever read. 110 years later it is as true now as it was then.
I suggest you look here:-
http://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/
And here:-
http://www.rcgfrfi.easynet.co.uk/ww/connolly/
For an anarchist critique of Connolly see here:-
http://struggle.ws/wsm/rbr/rbr8/connolly.html
He really is timeless.
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