Post by RedFlag32 on Sept 17, 2006 13:27:29 GMT
Voice’s of dissent
The voices of dissent are many; we have republicans, socialists, environmentalists, feminists, charity workers. These people see a wrong in the society we live in; they see inequality, sectarianism, injustice, racism and greed. They each are working for a better Ireland. In the case of republicans, an Ireland equal to that envisioned by the great leaders of 1916 and set out in print on the proclamation, leaders like James Connolly who envisioned a society that was just, and equal. Where all the people received an equal share of the wealth of the economy, not a minority class (ruling class), a society free from partitioned sectarianism and mis-rule by another foreign country. In the case of environmentalists, an Ireland where there is respect shown for the very substance that makes up this country, its soil, its air, its animals, its people. They want the capitalist system, with all its greed and single mindedness and money driven mentality replaced by a system that reflects the respect we should have for our environment, in its laws. In the case of charity worker’s, they want to see a society less focused on personal “wealth” and materialism and more focused on helping your fellow man/woman. They realise that it’s the very ideology of capitalism to be self-centred and for the people of society to change there self-centred attitude a new society has to be built.
Even among the voices of dissent there is division, socialist republicans disagree with anarchists, and anarchists disagree with Stalinists etc… but remember that this disagreement is only on their beliefs of what is the way to a new just society. The disagreement is not about a 32county socialist secular society which is something so many of the voices of dissent agrees on, it’s on the way to that society, or the way to a worldwide society change. We forget that when we have a working class revolution that all of a sudden we will all agree that what we have we can agree on, the best we can give the people of Ireland and the world. Sure there would be arguments about certain things, on how to run this just society so that it doesn’t fall back into the hands of the corrupt rulers, but this would be more rightly called “debate” not “disagreement”. So I ask all the voices of dissent to remember not to get disillusioned by the fact we all disagree and seem divided, one day we will all be united, in the realisation that we have succeeded in creating an Ireland that is just, equal and respectful of our environment. Its then that the disagreement will dissolve and the debate begin, the real work will begin, the real unity of the working class and the eliminating of the “class” totally from the history of Ireland!
In comradeship
Redflag32.
