this mostly applies to the U.S. but also most of the western world:

As Marxists we know that most policy is driven by what capital allows or within the increasingly narrow range of acceptable discourse it allows within bourgeois dictatorship

Obviously it's not a conspiracy of ten guys in a secret room but a general consensus that develops from a chaotic web-like oligarchy of money peddlers, influencers, lackeys, billionaire puppetmasters, etc

But this really, really hurts Capital. they need the influx of cheap labor or face the real threat of forced degrowth. and we know every international-community-1 international-community-2 including russia-cool is trying to make it harder for people to be childless but short of forcing people to procreate at gunpoint..

  • so why allow this to become a bipartisan consensus (U.S.) instead of say throwing some scraps of social democratic programs?

  • or in Europe's case allowing these parties to come to power instead of reversing some neoliberal austerity?

Is this a case of anti-immigration just being easier to do vs. building resiliency into the system? i mean it's always easier to write laws crimializing stuff and throwing cops at a problem i suppose

Or something else?

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 months ago

    Climate change brings with it 100s of millions of climate refugees. We are already seeing some of this occur.

    The destabilising effect of 100s of millions of refugees is beyond anything any state has ever survived before. It will cause collapses and revolutions. These revolutions will be won by socialists if fascists are not around to fight us.

    The funding and development of fascism coincides directly with the bourgeoisie feeling a need to use ultra violence to suppress the left. That need is on the horizon and they feel it existentially.

    • enkifish [any]
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      3 months ago

      Yeah it's this. The bourgeoisie are preparing for mass migration on a scale previously thought unimaginable. They're getting systems in place and priming the population to accept the mass extermination of refugees.

      • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        The bourgeoisie are preparing for mass migration on a scale previously thought unimaginable. They're getting systems in place and priming the population to accept the mass extermination of refugees.

        This has been what I'm thinking for quite some time. And because the left doesn't exist in the imperialist nations, it's easier for them to do it.