Re: [Marxism] Immigration in the Australian Economy

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't think its a red herring, and I wasn't using the term as a kind of
pejorative catch-all for all I disagree with in your anti-immigration line.
I think it must be the objective outcome of that line of thinking and
organizing. I originally compared the hatred of foreign workers in Australia
to the hatred of foreign workers in Nazi Germany. After the Nazis came to
power, the workers in the better paid and organized industrial jobs produced
documents about and spoke of how the Eastern European slave laborers were
scum whose produce was inferior to good German produce, and how they were
dragging down the German standard of living.

To me, what you advocate seems identical to what the racist crowds on that
Sydney beach were calling for. Who pays for their lifestyle? The bosses? I
don't think so. The logic of your position is for workers to ask for, and
accept, a bigger share of the bosses' profits. That is not necessarily
revolutionary, and not even necessarily social democratic.

I will say no more for now.

LOUIS GODENA WROTE:

Well, fine, just say that then.   Why drag "National Socialism" and other
red herrings across the argument?

Louis Godena

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