As human politics becomes increasingly polarized, a philosopher explains how to escape the gyre of tribalism
February 28, 2021 3:00PM (UTC)
A pro-Trump mob floods into the Capitol Building after breaking into it on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nation s capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden s Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)
SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT III - Separatism, federalism, centralism
Breaking apart existing states is not the road to socialism, but the road to defeat, writes Jack Conrad
Those who rigidly adhere to a moralistic, third-worldist anti-imperialism cannot possibly bring themselves to countenance self-determination for ‘unworthy’ peoples - the most obvious example being Israeli Jews and the British-Irish in the six counties of Northern Ireland.
1 Given its junior role in building, administering and maintaining what was a vast British empire, that must include Scotland too. After all, historically, even “left-of centre”
2 Scottish nationalists sought not an end to that empire, but, as a “mother nation”, equal rights with England to plunder and profit.