the inches are being outputted on this big time. There is a lot of sharp talk on this page as well. Lots of insults at opponents. Its not pretty.
Reading this you’d be forgiven for thinking this was a debate on the scale of organizing an Arab spring protest. There seems to be a loss of perspective. The engine of the Irish revolution spluttered in Stoneybatter, or Limerick or Cobh depending in who is writing.
Where did it all go wrong? Well the heat of this debate is indication. Its load many of the chips, all chips for some groups, and hope it pays big. The big pay off being the mass workers party. Campaigns are hyped up, over sold as being nascent political movements and then it peters out.
End result is people rip shreds of each other blaming each other and nobody settles down to think was it all over egged in the first place. Nah thats not going to get the blood up is it. Sounds a bit tame to just say hang on did we [insert group] not just expect too much from this.
This does not mean there wont be future large, and initially well supported campaigns, to oppose unfair taxes and fight austerity. There will be just as there will be people arguing that this time they do represent the chance to build a true working class movement. People will join to fight the tax, misalignment will occur with various factions who take singular opposition to austerity and its taxes to mean what they want it to mean and the whole thing will repeat.
History repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce and finally as the firm resolve to the building of a new mass working class party.
