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Originally Posted by Errigal
It makes sense when one recognizes modern Sinn Féin to be culturally one of the 68er movements.
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You are right. This is no surprising when one realizes that in the 1969 split the Provisional IRA accused the Official IRA of espousing internationalist Marxism as opposed to traditional Irish Republicanism (ergo Nationalism).
The Officials were recognizing the Republic of Ireland (and therefore the partition) with the intention of creating a proletarian political force (both in the South and in the North) that would eventually bring down the divisionn of Ireland.
The Provisionals, in contrast, considered both British occupation and the government of the Republic illegal (therefore they did not recognize the partition of Ireland). And they focused on the armed defense of the Catholic population of Northern Ireland.
The split also happened in the Sinn Féin, when the PIRA established the Provisional Sinn Féin. And although initially the support of the Provisional Sinn Féin was stronger in Northern Ireland, and the Official Sinn Féin lost grounds, overtime the theses of the Officials have been winning grounds.
Or so the story goes. Better an Irish to explain it.
These days, it seems to me that the more that the Marxist theses win, the more that they give up to the British. Somehow it goes hand by hand.
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