General@lemmygrad.mlM to Thoughts on ...?@lemmygrad.ml • 6 months agoThoughts on Ireland?imagemessage-square21 fedilinkarrow-up122
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minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlhexbear4·6 months agoIn all fairness any genuinely liberatory revolution that deep in the imperial core would have been swiftly crushed no? linkfedilink
minus-squareMuad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlhexbear8·edit-26 months agoIreland was not in the imperial core, it was a victim British oppression for hundreds of years. Other countries like China, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, Russia, all suffered similarly, but adopted a different path than Ireland. linkfedilink
minus-squareMuad'Dibber@lemmygrad.mlhexbear5·6 months agoCuba is 90 miles from the US, and Korea and China freed themselves from imperial Japan. linkfedilink
In all fairness any genuinely liberatory revolution that deep in the imperial core would have been swiftly crushed no?
Ireland was not in the imperial core, it was a victim British oppression for hundreds of years. Other countries like China, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, Russia, all suffered similarly, but adopted a different path than Ireland.
I meant more geographically
Cuba is 90 miles from the US, and Korea and China freed themselves from imperial Japan.