Yasha Lavine has this concept of the "weaponized immigrant." Basically how the core picks and chooses who's able to immigrate here. How they invariably favor the exiled bourgeoisie and anticommunists and ensure they get face time and publishing deals.
Also that shit just causes brain drain. The global south pays to educate people, then the west just sucks them up like some nightmare imperialist vacuum machine.
Yasha Lavine has this concept of the "weaponized immigrant." Basically how the core picks and chooses who's able to immigrate here. How they invariably favor the exiled bourgeoisie and anticommunists and ensure they get face time and publishing deals.
Also that shit just causes brain drain. The global south pays to educate people, then the west just sucks them up like some nightmare imperialist vacuum machine.
and people try to act like the fact that 140 people got shot trying to flee the GDR for nazi-run West Germany somehow invalidates the project