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The Telmarc Group PROGRESSIVISM, INDIVIDUALISM, AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL McGarry denies the nationalism which was part of Ireland, denies that it ever existed until the 19th century when the nationalists, by definition those seeking separatism, were brought to the fore. McGarry in good northern Irish form beknghts the good English caretakers and implies that the struggle was at worst a religious struggle, and that nationalism did not arise until much later. I would strongly disagree for Ireland was a nation as early as the late sixth century. The writing of Columbanus to Gregory I clearly demonstrate that the Irish saw themselves as a cohesive group, separate from the Gauls and Merovingians and the Angles and Saxons. It was in fact the choice that Gregory made in sending Augustine as Bishop of Canterbury in 598 that started the split between Ireland and Britain. Gregory was battling with Columbanus since Columbanus and the Irish hierarchy has favored Greek church rules and regulations and Gregory was commencing the separation of the Bishop of Rome from Byzantium, he was not yet a Pope, still just the Bishop of Rome. Thus one can argue that a true Irish nationalism was in place in 600 AD. What basis can one use for that statement, I will use Stalin's words from his study on nationalism, a study which he subsequently put into action when he established the USSR. As Joseph Stalin wrote 217 : "What is a nation? A nation is primarily a community, a definite community or people…Thus a nation is not a racial or tribal, but a historically constituted community or people…a common language is one of the characteristic features of a nation…a common territory is one of the characteristic features of a nation…a common economic life, economic cohesion, is one of the characteristic features of a nation…a common psychological makeup which manifests itself in a common culture is one of the characteristic features of a nation…a nation is a historically constituted community of people formed on the basis of a common language territory economic life and psychological makeup manifested in a common culture." This Ireland satisfied all of Stalin's demands as of 600, a common language, actually two, Irish and Latin, used intermingled, common land, the Island, common psychological makeup, common economic life. Thus one can argue Ireland was indeed a nation. But to the present, the US is one nation, we struggled through the darkest hours defining that during the Civil War. Yet we are again facing a similar struggle, one where we on the one hand have the political divergence between progressives and constitutionalists, those who believe we can change anything we want whenever we so desire if it is in the best interests of the "people" versus the group who believes there is something sacred in the documents and philosophy upon which the country was founded. Secondly we have the change which could occur as we introduce new immigrants who may not have accepted the "rules" of 217 Petitto, … p . Page 212
The Telmarc Group PROGRESSIVISM, INDIVIDUALISM, AND THE PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL the game and vary from "common language territory economic life and psychological makeup manifested in a common culture". This will be the double challenge we will face as a country over the next decades. A good leader or set of leaders can make this a smooth transition, a less than good set of leaders can turn it into chaos. I default to what happened in Ireland. Nationalism is a barrier to expanding social justice. Yet there are camps when we look at immigration in the U.S. who see social justice as transcending national borders. The lack of enforcement of immigration is not a negative act as much as it is a positive act of social justice, redistributing from the haves to the have nots. Thus the next step in the evolution of individualism is the destruction of nationalism. If we see the national barriers fall then we see the negative rights disappear and there would remain but positive rights with redistribution of assets. Page 213
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