“If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will 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”
James Connolly
They were also fundamentally nationalist, militant and anti-British
Like with all parts of history, there was different factions vying for different things (some just purely wanting the British out)
But to be so fundamentally anti-British at the time means to be somewhat anti-capitalist
And I think that still stands today
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2026-04-05 09:29:56 UTC
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