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Immigration is not leftist, it degrades value of labor. It's liberal policy - in the US this is conflated with left, but elsewhere liberal stands for individual
by tpm 2y ago
Immigration is not leftist, it degrades value of labor. It's liberal policy - in the US this is conflated with left, but elsewhere liberal stands for individualist policies, while left is more or less socialist, the exact opposite.
- petsfed 2y agoCertain kinds of leftist are anti-immigration. But anarchists and those in favor of international communism are aggressively (sometimes militantly) opposed to the concept of national borders or any meaningful restrictions on the movements of people.
- contagiousflow 2y agoAnd were the people making pro immigration policies in the west in favour of "international communism", or liberal capitalism?
- tpm 2y agoThose groups are not anywhere close to wielding power or influencing govs decisions.