https://www.marxists.org/archive/connolly/1915/rcoi/chap09.htm – "capitalism did more in one century to destroy the tongue of the Gael than the sword of the Saxon did in six"

https://www.marxists.org/archive//connolly/1898/10/language.htm – "The chief enemy of a Celtic revival today is the crushing force of capitalism which irresistibly destroys all national or racial characteristics, and by sheer stress of its economic preponderance reduces a Galway or a Dublin, a Lithuania or a Warsaw to the level of a mere second-hand imitation of Manchester or Glasgow. In the words of Karl Marx, “Capitalism creates a world after its own image,” and the image of Capitalism is to be found in the industrial centres of Great Britain."