What's wrong with open borders? Why shouldn't somebody be allowed to work in Texas just because they were born 5 miles over the border?
What's wrong with open borders...
Nothing. However, "open borders" in recent times is just a way for Porky to drive down wages even more, exploit workers who are afraid of returning to their home, and creating artificial growth in housing markets. It also gets reactionaries angry which obscures the actual problems.
Don't fall for "let's leave neoliberalism to run its course until the world is one big global free market, and THEN we'll do something after we have the combined power of all of us".
But closing borders doesn't prevent immigration, it only marginalizes the immigrants even more and so drives wages down even further. Additionally, why should we place the interests of the native workers over those of the immigrants?
And in the next sentence
That's exactly how it prevents immigration
Explain how less workers reduces the price of work?
Because native workers have impetus to stay when things go wrong. Also because we are the native workers, and we want to do whats best for us. In higher morality, its because this is a country our ancestors settled for us, and we should take care of it and pass it down to our children.
But it doesn't prevent immigration, by marginalizing the immigrants it only drives wages down further as under such conditions of complete illegality, they would have even less possibility to refuse work for an extremely low wage, look at the position of Southeast Asian workers in the Middle East. The rest of your post is garbage and has nothing to do with communism.
Right, but keeping minorities out prevents MOST immigration. If you step on a lego the next obvious step is NOT pouring out the lego box and saying, "WELL I CAN'T PREVENT IT LOL"
That would happen regardless, and does. Legal and illegal immigrants work for lower than legal wages because they don't need to support families, and they send most of their money back home.
Well now that's just mumbo jumbo, if it were really garbage it would be all about communism.
Fuck off liberal fag
What's wrong with opening the doors of your house and just letting everyone walk in, use the toilet, eat your food, etc.?
A nation is an extended community and it has an interest in keeping certain people out, especially if those people come from places with wildly incompatible social organizations, which in turn leads to conflict.
There would be no terrorism in London, for instance, if Muslims had not been allowed to migrate to Britain. Conceiving of thrle world as a collection of atomized and interchangeable individuals and thinking that there's some moral duty to let everyone into any place are liberal spooks that you might want to question. For more a more salient learning experience, go to a ghetto and, if you make it out alive, you will understand quite well why people want to keep certain elements out.
It's fucks like you why we can't have a decent immigration debate. I'm not for open borders but I don't support your racist horseshit either. You can say that allowing large amounts of poor people coming into a country reduces the price of labor without adding race into it.
fucking die
Crime is a real thing, but I forgive you for not realizing that in your sheltered, liberal gated community.
"The commies are gonna steal your toothbrush" tier argument, fuck off back to Holla Forums. Borders are spooky.
Fuck off fascist.
Muslims are a race.
First there's a loud bang, and then people start running.
Nothing wrong with open borders at all. The current migration crisis shit isn't a product of open borders. It's a product of destabilizing the region the migrants come from.
lmfao
Mexico has carbon tax, Texas doesn't.
No you dumb turd. Muslim is not a race, arab is a race! Muslim is a believer of islamic faith. Which may or may not be an arab.
100% correct!
Humans aren't divided in "race"!! This should know every leftist.
Open borders in socialism is fine. Open borders under capitalism is shit.
This isn't a question about the current economical system. The workers from all countries need our solidarity, therefore we must open the borders, even under capitalism.
Open borders might work in communism but definately not in capitalism. The white population gets butthurt and it just leads to fascism.
Not the "white population", it's the national Bourgeoisie which gets butthurt. And THIS leads to fascism!
This is one of the very basic rules, of being a leftist: Consequent solidarity with all workers from all nations and refuse nationalism!
Why aren't you a third wordist?
The national bourgeoisie seems to like importing millions of cheap labour.
I'm quite unsure about third worldism, but what I've read so far about it, I would agree with it. I'm getting deeper into this subject, but it is hard to find literature in german language. In the next days I'm going to read something by Mao, probably it is going to be "on contradiction".
Gee I wonder why.
You mean the guys who live isolated from the diversity, who get to sell more crap thanks to the government taking money from the people and giving it to "refugees", who get to further increase their profits by hiring cheaper workers and who can move to another country once their current host finally collapses? These guys? They are butthurt? So why do they keep investing in bringing more and more "refugees"?
If the first world imperialists wouldn't attack the south, we wouldn't have a refugee crisis. Beside that, I can understand that some individuals are angry and want to take revenge for destroying their home. So stop bashing the refugees, they are our comrades in fight against the capitalist system. It is our task to help them!
Such an arbitrary limit, and I wonder: What if the boss consents though?