Burnwinter wrote:
Qwiss! wrote:
Labour need to just take a pro-Europe and pro-immigrant stance. They have no other real alternative.
Agree. Ironically that's the principled stance that Corbyn, almost alone among left parliamentarians around the world, took until his circle seems to have convinced him to change tack late last year.
Yes it's a hard argument to win, but it's the only argument right now. Look at what's happening in the US. I lost interest in Corbyn's project as soon as he started to concede ground to "reasonable concerns" about immigration.
It's why I lost interest in the leftist party in this country as well, and we don't have even half a Corbyn. They're criticising the right and the neoliberal "centre" all day rightly on most subjects but when it comes to immigration they immediately assume the same, positions voicing concerns that "uncontrolled influx" of low skilled immigrants is a threat to the bottom half of society and how said immigrants erode the already pathetic minimum wage level.
The same authors would go on to make use of Karl Marx' famous metaphor of the limited amount of soup left in the bowl and the size of the workers' spoons and find nothing wrong with it. If the international left isn't dead nowadays at the very least it has shed some of the poorer countries from its circle.
