tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post8577146302741424136..comments2024-03-28T17:08:15.784-07:00Comments on Social Democracy for the 21st Century: A Realist Alternative to the Modern Left: The Free Market Final Solution to the Western WorldLord Keyneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06556863604205200159noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-64887385029828529772017-05-07T00:57:11.155-07:002017-05-07T00:57:11.155-07:00I agree with you Razor. My question was about how ...I agree with you Razor. My question was about how the effects are assessed scientifically? <br />(About lax immigration laws and enforcement I am not sure : you see there is frontex, there are laws getting harder every year... my impression was that immigrants were cheap labor but undocumented people are even cheaper. But it sounds a little paranoid. So I donnot know.)GLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04372485857847843352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-12651037311344094312017-05-06T07:27:24.252-07:002017-05-06T07:27:24.252-07:00Lax immigration laws and enforcement are part of l...Lax immigration laws and enforcement are part of laissez-faire ideology and practice. If you look at labor as a market, its context is very much like the ones for goods and services, subject to supply and demand. That's why one of the fundamental principles of the EU is the free movement of people as much as goods and services. And that's why neoliberal discourse will always make immigration look as overwhelmingly positive. It has an obnoxious peculiarity however: being that it's about people, the neoliberals and regressive leftists can fall back on faux moralism and humanitarian feelings, thus obfuscating the racket. vizorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11998940310438354605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-69128567288505265182017-05-06T02:55:30.928-07:002017-05-06T02:55:30.928-07:00Hello LK and everyone,
Actually there is a non glo...Hello LK and everyone,<br />Actually there is a non globalist, the genuine one ! (sanders in the US, Mélenchon in France, probably Corbyn in UK I hope his supporters will prevail over the blairite frauds)<br /><br />On the other side, we must notice something : when some right wing movement calls itself nationalist, it implies that they prefer nation over the defense of the interest of the upper class. Hence the appeal to impoverished people. But whenever they come to power they allways prefer those vested interests over those of the common people. That is why I think we shall never join them and that is how a genuine left wing movement should criticize them.<br />BTW : when conservatives say that it is not a split between right and left but between winners and losers of globalisation, it is not totally honnest IMHO. For the vast majority of victims of global market forces are precisely the blue collars and lower middle class people the left is supposed to stand for. All they can meaningfully say is that people like Clinton or Blair or Hollande are traitors and neoliberals in disguise.<br /><br />And I have a question to LK besides the Ha Jon Chang's quotation and Bob Rowthorn's study what are the evidence of the impact of immigration on blue collars wellfare / bargaining power ?<br />From I read it is rather limited (as compared to the effect of free trade or deregulation or automisation etc.) I am inclined to believe otherwise but also not willing to believe anything without grounds.<br />Furthermore I will not convince any of my fellow "untamed" countrymen without evidence !GLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04372485857847843352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-20638757152840203592017-05-05T11:24:02.518-07:002017-05-05T11:24:02.518-07:00Given a high percentage of the descendants of the ...Given a high percentage of the descendants of the slaves work in the jobs that low skill immigrants would be taking, I'd be quite interested to see an SJW explain how they can simultaneously support better economic conditions for the descendants of the slaves while replacing their jobs and undercutting their wages with an influx of low skill immigrants from Mexico and other places. Perhaps this is another example of what LK notes, where the intentions of the left doesn't jive with the effects.<br /><br />Rod Dreher, a conservative Eastern Orthodox writer who does a lot of work for The American Conservative, observed that the biggest political divide today isn't between left and right, but between the winners and losers of globalization. I'm beginning to think he may be correct.SHNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-48870048112195549562017-05-05T02:27:55.952-07:002017-05-05T02:27:55.952-07:00Wow its horrible indeedWow its horrible indeeddisequilibriumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09760922141392402211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6245381193993153721.post-68393758837439743972017-05-05T02:01:17.141-07:002017-05-05T02:01:17.141-07:00As with the Left in Western nations, there is a gl...As with the Left in Western nations, there is a globalist Right and a nationalist Right. <br /><br />The globalist Right is completely reprehensible, as this article demonstrates.<br /><br />The globalist Left is almost as awful, but made all the more appalling because it's virtually ALL of the Left.<br /><br /><br />This website and a very few others (of notably lower intellectual quality) offer a rallying point for the nationally focused Left.<br /><br />.jingelichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09998585247772423235noreply@blogger.com