TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:So

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TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:

So why cant you find an excuse for Lennon’ support for the IRA?

Actually, the article, after setting out Marx’s defence of his position, ends up saying we still think he was wrong:

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But whatever Marx and Engels supported, we in the Socialist Party of Great Britain and the World Socialist Party of Ireland do not agree that Socialists should support, or should have supported, Irish Nationalism any more than they should support nationalism anywhere else.

Basically, I’m on your side. I don’t think that the fact that Lennon supported the IRA detracts from the socialist sentiments expressed in “Imagine” or should stop us using it to spread socialist ideas.