Up
to possibly 15,000 nationalists rallied at Bannockburn where Robert
the Bruce triumphed over English army
for a separate Scottish sovereign state. A
socialist does not have profound sympathy with the struggles of
countrymen but with, fellow-workers; we do not demand service Irish
or English or French but solidarity in the cause of our class.
Nationalism will
give our fellow-workers something to quarrel over for years to come,
to the hindrance of propaganda for working-class solidarity against
the international capitalist class.
The Socialist
Standard has exposed this patriotic nonsense in an article from 2014
De
Brus or Bruys at Bannockburn never fought for the people of Scotland
– he fought to place a crown upon his head and create a royal dynasty.
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