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That happens once you get the land. The reason why you fight is to get the land in the first place. Nation first...economics second.
The economics are governed by those in power. People fight for the nation then decide how the economics are governed. Fighting for the right to have the nation in the first place is not about economics.
(used with a sing. verb) The social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems.
(used with a sing. or pl. verb) Economic matters, especially relevant financial considerations: “Economics are slowly killing the family farm” (Christian Science Monitor).
Yep and this has what to do with fighting for your own nation?
You seem to think that fighting for your own nation means you have control of your own economy which is true. But the reasons for fighting aren't economic one's, they're national one's. Dealing with economics comes after that.
I'm sure the Irish men and women who fought over the past 800 years didn't give too shit about how goods and services were distributed, they just wanted to be free from foreign control.
Anyway, you have to look at Marx in his historical context. Before Marx, history was seen as the unfolding of ideas (Hegel's dialectic). Marx took this and said that actually, the material (economic) is primary and ideas follow from that. Which is true IMO - if you have no food, shelter or heat then who gives a fuck about ideas of nation?
When you bring it back to the basics, its all about the knife and fork issues. The Irish didn't have economic control because they didn't own the land; therefore they went hungry. People don't care about "nation" if they have enough food, water, shelter, and have economic control over where they live.
All revolutions ever have been about knife and fork issues at heart. The French revolution was, the unification of Germany and of Italy was, the Russian revolution was. Luddism was. Peterloo was. Ireland was.
Those Irish that owned the land didn't support the uprisings, why do you think that was?
I usually view people who have held the same views all their life with some dubiety as the necessary knowledge and development of thought which is required to form a proper political outlook isn't there when you're starting off thinking about the larger questions in life. It strikes me as opinion based on unscientifically-aquired social-psychological positioning.
Not as pro-EU as I used to be though I still think on the whole it does more good than harm.
The lesser of two evils.