Tuesday 28 April 2009

Famine, the capitalist reality

Seeing you standing alongside David Kerr of Ulster Nation gave me an idea. Perhaps Mr. Kerr could reach the solution to a long suffering sore between the Irish & their former English colonial landlords?

We know that the argarian revolution motivated landlords to invest in making their land more productive. Many seem to have borrowed from money lenders in London. Were these members of the usual money lending tribe? These loans motivated the landlords to clear their tenants off the land, causing the Irish dispora to every corner of the globe & overcrowded slums in Britain's emerging towns & cities.

For years we Brits have been blamed for the Irish land clearences & the hardships of the disporia. e have been blamed for the Irish famine. Contempoary writers have said that shiploads of Irish agricultural produce went to ports in England to pay for the rents on Irish smallholdings & farms. Was this at least partly to pay off debts owed to money lenders in Elgland?

If so the greed of these money lenders led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Irish peasants, and Irish folk should stop blaming only the British for their dispora. Similar situations after all led to droves of English, Scots, Welsh & Cornish folk also been driven off into the slums of industrial cities & mill towns.

Such anaylis will undoubtably lead to wails of "anti-semitism" but these are legitimate historical questions. Why should poor jews seek to defend rich ones out of a misguided racial loyalty?
A similar historical con has led to white Christians being blamed for the slave-trade, white jewish involvement is minimalised. Even more outragious is the silence of the massacre of Christians in the Soviet gulags by disproportionately jewish bolshevik leaders. I have read with my own eyes a contribution to the jewish Socialist journal arguing that Russia & Eastern Europe should be more like they were in Stalin's time. 0nly Christians being slaughtered I suppose...

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