Cú Chulainn

Engels reference is indeed relevant to Marx's discussion of the reserve army of capital. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm … @alessabocchi

Its not relevant to our discussion, only in that Marx & Engels position on the surplus army marries mine wrt immigration in Europe, in direct contradistinction to European nationalists like these Berlusconi creeps.https://twitter.com/PhilGreaves01/status/902888035376881664 …

Marx in no way supports immigration--he recognizes capital's reserve army as a tool to divide the proletariat. globalized capital is destroying the nation-state, as the nation-state replaced local economies with national markets. it is natural but futile that people oppose this.

What a dickish remark. Marx advocated the eventual abolition of nations you utter moron, thus his problem was not migration per se, but the capitalist mode of production & the capitalist classes exploitation of both migrant & domestic labour.

Nations are in themselves man-made things, not 'natural essences', thus like everything else they are subject to one definite thing: change, Marxist theory posits that all such relics of the past will become superfluous to society, but that may not happen for 5000 yrs.

the nation is a creation of capital in its formal domination, when capital builds on what has come before; in capital's real domination it destroys what has come before e.g. kinship bonds. the nation is an extension of the communist genos; not it but the state must be abolished

Look how you weild "capital"--as a thing in itself. Here let me rephrase for ya: modern nations are creations of certain capitalist classes, ie: groups of individuals with certain interests, not a mystical 'essence' called 'capital'. The rest of your tweet is just gibberish.