James Connolly, born on this day in 1868, was an Irish socialist revolutionary, founder of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), and leader of the Easter Rising rebellion, for which he was executed by the British government.
Connolly was born in a poor Edinburgh neighborhood and spoke with a Scottish accent. He joined the British Army at age 14 to escape poverty and developed a hatred for the institution from firsthand experience. He deserted when his regiment was set to deploy to India.
He was also member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and founder of the Irish Socialist Republican Party. With labor radical James Larkin, he was centrally involved in the Dublin lock-out of 1913, after which the two men formed the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) the same year.
Connolly was opposed to British rule in Ireland and played a leading role in the Easter Rising of 1916, signing the “Proclamation of the Irish Republic” and serving as Commandant of the Dublin Brigade, the regiment that played the most substantial role in the Rising. Connolly was executed by firing squad following the Rising’s defeat.
“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 would be in vain. England would 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
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Not to play Devil’s Advocate, but it’s fine to admit that China made a mistake about 40 years ago. Is he that bad of a lib that he thinks China would do it again right now so China is comparable to the US in terms of suppressing protests?
He believes that the US is a freer and more democratic country because he can say the president is a big dumb baby on x dot com and not get arrested. He is so lib but is willing to listen to everything I have to say since he likes me and I’m his student next academic semester.
I did say that no one should have died that day, but the bigger point was how the West completely erased all cultural and historical context to the point of absurdity so that no American could actually connect with their Chinese counterparts without this awkward “um aktually did u know u live under a totalitarian regime.” I’m also still trying to deprogram all the Xinjiang lies so I’m using coverage about 6-4 in the West to demonstrate the willingness of MSM to distort the truth and face no consequences for doing so.
Wish all libs would let us cook like that guy. Godspeed.
Side point, is this a CS professor? I think I had a similar-ish prof but I cheesed his classes way too much to go and talk with him personally without feeling too bad.
He’s a romance languages professor. I’m his best student afaik and i go to his office hours.
Go grab the UN final report on Xinjiang if you haven’t already!
Can you be more specific? I’m only finding the one that claims there may be “serious human rights violations.”
Nah, never show liberals weakness. If anything is going to work on them it is blindly asserting thr point with confidence.