Judis, who has decades of experience on the U.S. left, succeeded in setting forth a clear and concise formulation of a socialist position in favor of immigration restrictions. In doing so, he inadvertently demonstrated how completely detached that position is from reality.
By
David L. Wilson, MR Online
January 3, 2022
The libertarian magazine Reason ran an eye-catching headline in its August-September issue: “How Mass Immigration Stopped American Socialism.”
The article
itself doesn’t do much more than reveal its authors’ ignorance about
socialism and about socialist labor organizing in the early twentieth century,
but it highlights a problem that has troubled U.S. socialists for more than a
century. Pro-immigrant positions are natural for leftists; they have no trouble
recognizing the dehumanization
and the appeals to racism
and xenophobia
that underlie rightwing rhetoric against “open borders” and “illegal aliens.”
But does socialist support for immigrants’ rights drive away U.S.-born workers?[…]
Read
the full article:
https://mronline.org/2022/01/03/are-there-foreigners-in-the-u-s-working-class/
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| Immigrants and supporters march on May Day. Photo: David Bacon |
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