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The Politics of Illusion
Henry Patterson
其他書名
A Political History of the IRA
出版
Serif
, 1997
主題
History / Europe / Ireland
Political Science / General
Political Science / Political Process / Political Parties
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism
Political Science / World / European
ISBN
1897959311
9781897959312
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nOiGAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
This is the first comprehensive study of the IRA's attempts to create a 'social republicanism', a marriage between militant nationalism and the politics of the left. From agitation amongst the peasantry in the 1920s to efforts in the 1990s to add a political dimension to purist nationalism in the form of Sinn Fein's 'peace process', Henry Patterson analyses the various failed attempts to marry two fundamentally incompatible ideologies. Friend and foe have described the IRA as 'socialists', 'Marxists', 'fascists' or simply as militaristic and murderous thugs. In this highly praised work the author steers us through the complex, schismatic and inevitably secretive history of both the Provisional and Official IRA, Sinn Fein and the various organisations with which they have been associated. He teases out the meaning and significance of the twists and turns in republican policy, which at different periods have involved working with trade unions, collaboration with Nazi Germany, support for tenants fighting for better housing, hunger strikes and, of course, both urban and rural guerrila warfare. This fully revised and updated new edition takes the history of Irish republicanism beyond Sinn Fein's best ever performance in the 1997 Westminster and Dail elections to the IRA's renewed ceasefire. Henry Patterson's conclusion is that 'physical force' or militarist nationalism and the politics of the left make uneasy and, when the rhetoric is cleared away, self-deluding and illusory bed-fellows.