Come all you Irish people who love freedom and common decency and sobriety...

...never trust someone born within the sound of the Bow Bells in London or the Liberty Bells in Dublin or the Shandon Bells in Cork. Disregard their words and actions. Most of them are thieves,petty criminals and prostitutes. They will come at you with a knife or knuckle-duster. The only people who can handle them are the Army. Armies were set up to deal with street protests by such people and their spokesmen and apologists. However do not hesitate to give to charities which care for them.

These slumdwellers are the people referred to by Marx as gutter proletarians, people who live by theft, violence and murder. I know,I lived amongst them for six years and bear the physical scars of their crimes.

When attacked-if you are an outsider,you will most certainly be attacked or at least accosted for money by them-report them to the police and leave the matter  at that. Don't bring them to court or they will inflict even more harm on you because they are not afraid of prison. Centuries of habituation to anti-social behaviour has left them with no fear of authority. They will know soon enough after you make their acquaintance, where and when to find you because criminals have one thing in common with the police,they like to know where their next victim or suspect is at any given time...


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17.7.2023

Freedom vs. authority 

Proof positive that the great Reformation counter-polation of individual conscience and civil freedom with authority and collective salvation through good works is a false and a bad guide to life lies in industrial and post-industrial times. 

The evidence is overwhelming. These philosophical notions have little bearing on industrial capitalism and corporate finance. 

Why was the individual counterposed to the mass looking back to the Reformation?

The desire to accumulate  wealth on behalf of a few greedy individuals.

When was this proposition first properly updated for modern times?

By Christopher Hill,A. L. Morton and T.E. Jackson and others of the Communist Party of Great Britain Historians Group as recently as the 1950's. 

Is there a clash between individual freedom and collective solidarity, then?

No such dichotomy has ever existed not even in Jesus's or Martin Luther's or the Albigensians' or Cathars' times. All history is as Marx writes,the history of class struggle. Neither the German Reformation princes nor Catholic Church reformers were friends of the poor. Both were led by religious scholars and zealots and jurists acting under the direction of the aristocracy.

Authority? 

Despite what all Marxist scholars with the exception of Engels (Socialism, Utopian and Scientific) claim,NO SOCIETY IS ALL-CONSUMING be it that of Herodian tetrarch, Galilee in Roman occupation or the Provisional Government of Saint Petersburg dualism from February to November 1917 .

Nor was totalitarian Italy and Germany combined in the period from October 1922 to May 1945. Nor Russia from 1924 to 1953 unipolar.

There is always the individual;there is always society. There is always conflict;there is always harmony.

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To pick up on my theme from these well-worn philosophical apposites...

Those people who are born within sound of the Bow Bells are associated with anti-Catholicism e.g. the Gordon riots (1788). The Liberties of Dublin were what Queen Victoria referred to as the most Protestant City in the Empire.

Let people and academia remember real history and reminisce on the origins of heresy and its successor, this religious-political sophistry.