mmm, parts of it were

The IRA and their variants 1969-onwards are

wasn't till later that they turned marxist

doesn't matter baby

we still support them

Connolly was very socialist

No he was not

Hahahaha

umm, yes he fucking was

"As a Socialist I am prepared to do all one man can do to achieve for our motherland her rightful heritage – independence; but if you ask me to abate one jot or tittle of the claims of social justice, in order to conciliate the privileged classes, then I must decline."

He was very authoritarian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Socialist_Republican_Party

In his later years, not as socialist

really makes you think

>founded by james conolly

He fought along side non-socialists in the Easter Rising though

The Socialist who would destroy, root and branch, the whole brutally materialistic system of civilisation, which like the English language we have adopted as our own, is, I hold, a far more deadly foe to English rule and tutelage, than the superficial thinker who imagines it possible to reconcile Irish freedom with those insidious but disastrous forms of economic subjection – landlord tyranny, capitalist fraud and unclean usury; baneful fruits of the Norman Conquest, the unholy trinity, of which Strongbow and Diarmuid MacMurchadha – Norman thief and Irish traitor – were the fitting precursors and apostles.

If you remove the English army to-morrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic your efforts would be in vain.

there is absolutely no fucking doubt he was a socialist

Look at Fianna Fáil

The word socialist has been used very liberally before the cold war

yes, not all of the IRA was socialist, but Connolly was definitely a socialist

think of NatSoc and Ba'athist "Arab Socialism"

Easter Rising he didn't fight for a socialist cause

Ba'athism was during the Cold War

sects of Ba'athism were socialist, Natsoc was only in name though

Founded before it

It was more a "get the fuck out, UK" cause

gained power after it though

and their ideology substantially changed

anyways, it doesn't matter, scientific socialists have supported national liberation since Marx and beyond

This irish party never gained power

what matter does this make

I meant Ba'athism

i know

you only have to read up on Marx on the question of Irish liberation

well, which branch of Ba'athism matters, I guess

Look up Patrick Pearse

Historical context gives it the modern significance and nuance.

The whole thring was called Arab Socialism by its members and outsiders

Connolly fought along side Patrick