Re: Common Dreams xenophobia

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> >On today's Common Dreams website (a pro-Democratic Party outlet
> >founded by nonprofit foundation entrepreneur Don Hazen), there's a
> >completely rancid article on immigration written by Thom Hartmann,
> >an Air America radio host and author of such groundbreaking books as
> >"Focus Your Energy", which is described on his website
> >(http://www.thomhartmann.com/focus.shtml) as a way to succeed in
> >business even if you suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder. Just
> >what suffering humanity has been waiting for. Although I lack the
> >patience to do a thorough study of Hartmann-thought, he strikes me
> >as a combination of New Age hustler and woozy-headed liberal.
>
> Hartmann's also big on how the furriners are buying up 'murica.
>
> I'm just reading Peter Kwong & Dusanka Miscevic's Chinese America, a
> history of the Chinese in the US. It's distressing to be reminded
> once again how anti-Chinese agitation was practically the founding
> act of the US labor movement. This toxic stuff has a long history.

Twenty+ years ago I came across one of the rare instances when a WSJ
editorial seemed to make sense. The editorial claimed that never in
history had a mass migration such as the u.s. was experiencing been
stopped by any means whatever. Perhaps a bit extreme, but I suspect it
was pretty correct and efforts to keep the uncivilized horde out of both
the u.s. and out of europe are going to fail unless/until radical
changes in the social conditions of Latin America, Africa, mideast,
south and southeast asia change fundamentally.

The following can't help us now or in the near future, so it's
essentially in the realm of fantasy, but if "we" (of the current quarter
century or so) don't make a revolution, the descendants of the current
migratory flow will two or three generations from now.

Carrol