From: shmage-AT-pipeline.com
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 23:52:47 -0500
Subject: Re: Reply to Heartfield, challenge to ShaneRe: M-I: on nation building


Gary MacLennan writes:


>This is hopeless.  At one level the epoch of anti-imperialist struggles is
>over and at another it is "in abeyance."  It can't be both.
>
>Let me repeat my specific point in the hope that Shane will deign to answer.
>
>He is incorrect to discount the Irish Troubles as an anti-imperialist war
>solely on the grounds of the existence of a pro-imperialist minority in
>Ireland which he to his bloody shame describes as a majority.

In my parenthetical remark I carefully referred to "places...where a
majority of the population is clearly opposed to secession."  What was,
until a couple of generations ago, "a pro-imperialist minority in Ireland,"
has become a local majority in the *place* to which I referred.  Does Gary
suggest that in Ireland as a whole, unlike, alas, the case in any other
advanced capitalist country today, the majority of the population is
"anti-imperialist?"

Shane




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