You can't have open borders ~and~ the welfare state.. it's a flat out fact of economics. You want endless immigrants entering the country? Fine...but you'll need to get rid of EVERYTHING from welfare to public schools to paved roads to the postal service.
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4/5: We are supposedly against Neoliberalism, yet we encourage globalization of capital and labor, otherwise its racist. Reading this article almost feels like deprogramming from a cult, slowly remembering something long forgotten, even while questioning if...
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True, all our current immigration laws were lobbied for by big corporations.
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1/3 : For many progressives who were active during the anti-globalization/anti-NAFTA movement of the 1990s -- which in part came to a head during Seattle '99 -- reading this article is a spooky experience...
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Bring it back
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3/3: But somehow in the decades since, the ideological guidance via our own liberal punditry, media outlets, think tanks, academic institutions, took the Left in a different direction. Related contradictions have likewise been papered over: We are supposedly...
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2/3: 20 years ago there was a good deal of clarity around confronting policies that undermined democratic sovereignty, decimated organized labor, and helped give rise to global regions zoned for slavery.
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Zoned slavery is the great key here. Capital is building what seem like permanent underclasses and ‘disposable’ regions. And b/c much of it is out of sight people pretend the meritocracy is clicking along great
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The working class does not reside exclusively in United States of America. This might be news to some people. Anyhow American workers do not gain by having sweatshop auto assembly plants on the Mexican side of an imaginary line.
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Oh another thing about workers and the working class - a whole lot of them are not white or men either.
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For sure it's a challenge. Read it yesterday and still digesting it. Exposed lots of holes in my thinking.
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Lol, she said that the fall of the berlin wall resulted in free movement of capital AND labor. There's never been free movement of labor. Also, "how are we going to pay for it" is a ridiculous argument for a country that spends $90M on a jet that can't fly
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Or its bad. You can solve the problem of low wage by restricting access to the labor market. We live in an increasingly automated workforce. You're not going to get workers high long-term pay if your argument is based on limiting the supply of workers. The demand will not keep up
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In other words we don't need immigrant labor either.
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Legal immigration is not anti-globalism. Mixing these two narratives is sloppy thinking.
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Two different kinds of Walls
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