WittyProfileName2, 1 year ago

I realise that I’m using nationalist in a context that you’re probably unfamiliar with.

When I say Welsh nationalism I’m using this definition - “advocacy of or support for the political independence of a particular nation or people.”

As opposed to the definition you’re likely more familiar with -“identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.”

Now for how I Square these two otherwise inconsistent political goals:

It is a complicated process and I don’t doubt that the Welsh nationalist movement may present some hurdles in the long run to the dissolution of state hierarchy. But the way I see it is like this:

UK parliament controls the entire UK, there’s the senedd in Wales and the Scottish parliament but ultimately they only have the power to make minor adjustments to laws (such as change the speed limit slightly).

As such, any revolution that occurs in Wales has to contend not just with the local bourgeois but also from the bourgeois of the United Kingdom as a whole.

Now two possible tactics exist in this situation:

• revolution across the whole UK at once.

Or

• Wales separates from the UK and then undergoes revolution.

Of the two of those, I believe the latter outcome is more likely to succeed.

Sorry for the huge wall of text.