Originally posted by Permanent
[email protected] 10, 2007 10:54 pm
I never said you weren't largely constituted of working-class Catholics, I said you weren't a workers militia - there's a difference.
You know yourself.
And I'm so grateful you can explain these differences to me. I never woulda known that, sure.
It's irrelevant in that it doesn't matter how many working-class members you have, how much weapons you fire into the sky or how many flags you can wave - if your political line is ineffective then you are doomed. DOOMED I TELLS YE
The IRSP recognised that armed struggle ceased to be a useful tactic some time ago. In line with changing conditions, we changed our tactics. We tried to push mass struggle, but the provos rejected it. True to form, you agreed with SF just yesterday that the only options available were either armed struggle or the GFA sellout. So don't lecture me about an inneffective political line, fuck :lol:
This is what I mean about you- scratch the surface of your lefty veneer and you're still a shinner.
Those two aren't logically related, ie fueds and splits to being an underground army
Then why did the feuds and splits occur in the INLA? To my understanding it was a lack of political education, the lack of internal communication and the neccessarily undemocratic mode of operation of your 'underground army'.
The central leadership who were capable of maintaining discipline with the various factions were murdered by the Sticks, Loyalists and SAS (Costello, Daly, Bunting, etc). Then to keep pace with the PIRA, militarists within the INLA recruited people who were apolitical physical force types. When criminal elements who should have never been allowed into the RSM were purged, they formed together to detroy the RSM. That's it in a nutshell. Today we're free of those problems, so being an underground army isn't the inherent problem was my point. The critical issue is that we have politics in command- the army is subordinate to the party, and the party is a mass democratic organisation for shaping policy. I know because I take part in it.
Also, maybe you should come along to a Socialist Youth meeting where there's twenty young people who have just worked their asses off all week trying to get a disinterested and apathetic youth interested in working-class politics and call us 'trendy leftists'.
You make a lot of assumptions about me. Let's just say I know your group better than you think.