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That "hordes" phrasing is at the center of it. And Greenwalds blogpost is all about national identity, something Marx did not write about and actually blamed a
by cycomanic 6y ago
That "hordes" phrasing is at the center of it. And Greenwalds blogpost is all about national identity, something Marx did not write about and actually blamed as part of the problem.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoYou can either not write about something OR blame it as part of the problem, but not BOTH ?!? In [3] : > Marx did not elaborate on his reasons for writing that Irish immigration reduced English workers’ wages. He implied that the cause was an oversupply of manual laborers, but his other statements indicate that he considered English xenophobia and the resulting antagonism among workers an even greater problem. [...] > In his 1870 letter, Marx described what he then considered the overriding priority for labor organizing in England: “to make the English workers realize that for them the national emancipation of Ireland is not a question of abstract justice or humanitarian sentiment but the first condition of their own social emancipation.”