tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post6849991853858027261..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: Channeling Karl Marxgcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-18460117998812075502016-06-29T21:01:48.491-04:002016-06-29T21:01:48.491-04:00OK, here is a problem. (not with your hypothesis, ...OK, here is a problem. (not with your hypothesis, but Marx')<br /><br />Marx wrote:<br /><br />"But the English bourgeoisie has also much more important interests in the present economy of Ireland. Owing to the constantly increasing concentration of leaseholds, Ireland constantly sends her own surplus to the English labour market, and thus forces down wages and lowers the material and moral position of the English working class.<br /><br />And most important of all! Every industrial and commercial centre in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats and capitalists against Ireland, thus strengthening their domination over himself. He cherishes religious, social, and national prejudices against the Irish worker. His attitude towards him is much the same as that of the “poor whites” to the Negroes in the former slave states of the U.S.A.. The Irishman pays him back with interest in his own money. He sees in the English worker both the accomplice and the stupid tool of the English rulers in Ireland.<br /><br />This antagonism is artificially kept alive and intensified by the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes. This antagonism is the secret of the impotence of the English working class, despite its organisation. It is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. And the latter is quite aware of this."<br /><br />This is from a letter he wrote in 1870.<br /><br />He started making these claims that the English elite conspired to oppress English workers with Irish mass immigration. Pit English and Irish against each other to prevent them from rebelling against the English.<br /><br />He wrote this in 1870, years after the 1848 revolutionary movements died out with little support. Marx wanted to an excuse for why his theories of an imminent revolution failed to hold up.<br /><br />So he made up a conspiracy theory that ethnic tensions between Irish and English were invented by the elite to stop a possible revolution. It was an excuse to save face after predictions failed to come true.Prateekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15287835907015065883noreply@blogger.com