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| | Government Interventionism in Ireland, Part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | Government interventionism, of one form or another, was the dominant creed in the early 20th century, and Irelands intellectuals, like so many others around the world, succumbed to the belief in salvation through government control. |
 | | Unfortunately, it is precisely the craving for government control that made their hopes for self-determination so unappealing to a significant minority of their population, the very people whose cooperation they required to make a peaceful departure from British control. |
 | | This was completely contrary to the views of Irelands socialists, who wanted to expropriate the private property of Protestant industrialists in their class war, or, at the very least, indirectly commandeer a large percentage of their earnings by curtailing their ability to trade in world markets. |
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