>>2570092>marx specifically says that solidarity with irish nationalists by the english workers is in their self-interest, divorcing it from humanitarian concerns.How is this a rebuttel to what he said?
>all labour movements are inherently national; that is a contradiction between workers which marx identifies.You are being myopic about this, Marx identifies that many labour movements of the day begin as national, but due to capital being a international system, mere petty national labour movements are insufficient in actually wholly overcoming capital. You're so close it can be infuriating. The only thing national movements can consequentially do is open up avenues of proletarian revolution. They can weaken the bourgeoise, but if they merely stop at a national level, even if it's multiple countries operating on a purely national level, the revolution is doomed to failure. Either because they fall to capital as capital is a globally interrelated system that overcomes the singular nodes of national capital by means of access to the vast economic nodes available to it (and the petty "national" bourgeoisie implicitly become aware of this, which is which is why even in the case of multiple "closed" economies, some of those economies will begin expanding their markets into each other to outcompete the economies that don't, and over time re-evolve to capital proper again), or because said system goes through the inevitable market contrdictions they do and so takes on a reactionary character where the still existent bourgeoisie elements reassert themselves and cannibalize the system in attempt to preserve captialism in spite of itself.
>indeed, we may read xenophon…In this paragraph you detail how capital trade grows to take on more and more of the global sphere, yet you fail to notice how mere arguments for national production and trade are selected out. The international overcomes the national, the global overcomes the domestic. This is the reality of all economies, of how classes expand their dominion, and how all those that don't are overcome and discarded. "National" capital can exist only for a short historical time before it is selected out by "global" capital. National movements are sufficient for a time, up to the point it seizes th
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