Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 7:43 am
You can keep statists out of you have closed borders.
Because sometimes even national leaders just want to hang out
https://forum.nationstates.net/
Risottia wrote:Bakery Hill wrote: under capitalism, I think it is extremely unethical and unwise to support open borders
Under capitalism, since the current state of capitalism doesn't like borders, borders are open, whether you like it or not.
Also, you cannot reasonably maintain a fortified border - even the Great Wall of China eventually proved to be useless.
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Bakery Hill wrote:Risottia wrote:
Under capitalism, since the current state of capitalism doesn't like borders, borders are open, whether you like it or not.
Also, you cannot reasonably maintain a fortified border - even the Great Wall of China eventually proved to be useless.
I sometimes wonder Risottia, is 80% of your "communism" just shrugging and accepting capitalism? Is this what's left of the PCI now?
Vovodoco wrote:There should be 5 major viewpoints on border control not just open and closed. Open sounds like no lack of security, and closed sounds psychotically more protectionist than most people who believe in restricted access mean too.
OPEN- No border regulation.
LOOSE- Easy vetting, essentially an innocent until proven guilty approach
MODERATE- Equally opened as closed, moderate beuracracy
TIGHT- Tough vetting process, think Canada, who only allows people in if they can prove they will be of economic value.
CLOSED- No immigrants, think North Korea.
I think LOOSE immigration is the most intelligent. You don't deny your country a quality workforce, you get to "keep out them damn terrorist *spits into spatoon*", and most employers say they are better workers than natives.
Valgora wrote:Vovodoco wrote:There should be 5 major viewpoints on border control not just open and closed. Open sounds like no lack of security, and closed sounds psychotically more protectionist than most people who believe in restricted access mean too.
OPEN- No border regulation.
LOOSE- Easy vetting, essentially an innocent until proven guilty approach
MODERATE- Equally opened as closed, moderate beuracracy
TIGHT- Tough vetting process, think Canada, who only allows people in if they can prove they will be of economic value.
CLOSED- No immigrants, think North Korea.
I think LOOSE immigration is the most intelligent. You don't deny your country a quality workforce, you get to "keep out them damn terrorist *spits into spatoon*", and most employers say they are better workers than natives.
I think LOOSE or MODERATE would be the most intelligent decisions for this.
Vovodoco wrote:There should be 5 major viewpoints on border control not just open and closed. Open sounds like no lack of security, and closed sounds psychotically more protectionist than most people who believe in restricted access mean too.
OPEN- No border regulation.
LOOSE- Easy vetting, essentially an innocent until proven guilty approach
MODERATE- Equally opened as closed, moderate beuracracy
TIGHT- Tough vetting process, think Canada, who only allows people in if they can prove they will be of economic value.
CLOSED- No immigrants, think North Korea.
I think LOOSE immigration is the most intelligent. You don't deny your country a quality workforce, you get to "keep out them damn terrorist *spits into spatoon*", and most employers say they are better workers than natives.
Bakery Hill wrote:Risottia wrote:
Under capitalism, since the current state of capitalism doesn't like borders, borders are open, whether you like it or not.
Also, you cannot reasonably maintain a fortified border - even the Great Wall of China eventually proved to be useless.
I sometimes wonder Risottia, is 80% of your "communism" just shrugging and accepting capitalism? Is this what's left of the PCI now?
Holy Tedalonia wrote:The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:We are all most on that first step.
There's 2 issues...Opponents cite issues such as funding voter turnout, and undemocratic UN member nations as reasons for abandoning the project altogether.
Specifically the undemocratic ones, but even then some democratic ones too. No nation likes giving up power, and it'll just be talked about and speculated.
If anything, Riso isn't letting the original notions of Marxist internationalism get overrun by Blut und Boden cloaking itself under a red flag.
The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:Holy Tedalonia wrote:There's 2 issues...
Specifically the undemocratic ones, but even then some democratic ones too. No nation likes giving up power, and it'll just be talked about and speculated.
It could still happen.
Voter turnout wouldn't be a problem if you just give the PM of the proposed Parliament a cool title, or do forced democracy like Brazil.
The undemocratic ones could be talked into it if it was like how the UK does the Queen and parliament.
Agritum wrote:Bakery Hill wrote:I sometimes wonder Risottia, is 80% of your "communism" just shrugging and accepting capitalism? Is this what's left of the PCI now?
It's more like you're what Italian communists like Riso and younger me used to call a "Rossobruno".
If anything, Riso isn't letting the original notions of Marxist internationalism get overrun by Blut und Boden cloaking itself under a red flag.
Dumb Ideologies wrote:Agritum wrote:It's more like you're what Italian communists like Riso and younger me used to call a "Rossobruno".
If anything, Riso isn't letting the original notions of Marxist internationalism get overrun by Blut und Boden cloaking itself under a red flag.
Did I just walk into a showing of Tankies vs Revisionists 2: Fascistic Boogaloo?
Dumb Ideologies wrote:Agritum wrote:It's more like you're what Italian communists like Riso and younger me used to call a "Rossobruno".
If anything, Riso isn't letting the original notions of Marxist internationalism get overrun by Blut und Boden cloaking itself under a red flag.
Did I just walk into a showing of Tankies vs Revisionists 2: Fascistic Boogaloo?
Risottia wrote:Also, you cannot reasonably maintain a fortified border - even the Great Wall of China eventually proved to be useless.
Vovodoco wrote:There should be 5 major viewpoints on border control not just open and closed. Open sounds like no lack of security, and closed sounds psychotically more protectionist than most people who believe in restricted access mean too.
OPEN- No border regulation.
LOOSE- Easy vetting, essentially an innocent until proven guilty approach
MODERATE- Equally opened as closed, moderate beuracracy
TIGHT- Tough vetting process, think Canada, who only allows people in if they can prove they will be of economic value.
CLOSED- No immigrants, think North Korea.
I think LOOSE immigration is the most intelligent. You don't deny your country a quality workforce, you get to "keep out them damn terrorist *spits into spatoon*", and most employers say they are better workers than natives.
Bakery Hill wrote:Risottia wrote:
Under capitalism, since the current state of capitalism doesn't like borders, borders are open, whether you like it or not.
Also, you cannot reasonably maintain a fortified border - even the Great Wall of China eventually proved to be useless.
I sometimes wonder Risottia, is 80% of your "communism" just shrugging and accepting capitalism? Is this what's left of the PCI now?
Trumptonium wrote:Vovodoco wrote:There should be 5 major viewpoints on border control not just open and closed. Open sounds like no lack of security, and closed sounds psychotically more protectionist than most people who believe in restricted access mean too.
OPEN- No border regulation.
LOOSE- Easy vetting, essentially an innocent until proven guilty approach
MODERATE- Equally opened as closed, moderate beuracracy
TIGHT- Tough vetting process, think Canada, who only allows people in if they can prove they will be of economic value.
CLOSED- No immigrants, think North Korea.
I think LOOSE immigration is the most intelligent. You don't deny your country a quality workforce, you get to "keep out them damn terrorist *spits into spatoon*", and most employers say they are better workers than natives.
Canada, a country which is 21% composed of immigrants (the highest in the Western world except for city-states and AU/CH) and is fifth in the Western world for yearly migration per 1000 inhabitations (LUX>CH>NO>AU) and is SIXTH in the entire world for total immigration in the last 5 years is "TIGHT"? Once you remove the anomalies of Oman for temporary economic migration and Lebanon and Turkey for Syrian asylum seekers, then Canada is actually the 3rd country in the world for net migration, after the US and Germany.
Holy crap you must be very very left on the political compass to think that a country which has let in twice the amount of immigrants in a five-year period as the United Kingdom while having half of it's population is in fact "tightly controlled."
Imperializt Russia wrote:Trumptonium wrote:
Canada, a country which is 21% composed of immigrants (the highest in the Western world except for city-states and AU/CH) and is fifth in the Western world for yearly migration per 1000 inhabitations (LUX>CH>NO>AU) and is SIXTH in the entire world for total immigration in the last 5 years is "TIGHT"? Once you remove the anomalies of Oman for temporary economic migration and Lebanon and Turkey for Syrian asylum seekers, then Canada is actually the 3rd country in the world for net migration, after the US and Germany.
Holy crap you must be very very left on the political compass to think that a country which has let in twice the amount of immigrants in a five-year period as the United Kingdom while having half of it's population is in fact "tightly controlled."
How does that make this person "very very left"?
They've clearly just skimmed the wiki article on "immigration in Canada" or watched an episode of "Border Force" and heard of Canada's prerequisite that a would-be immigrant has wealth of $10,000 or some such, in order to demonstrate they can support themselves once they enter the country until they are able to seek gainful employment - that they will not immediately contribute to homelessness or try and seek government support for which they are ineligible.
The poster is probably just grossly misinformed as to the nature of Canadian immigration policy.
Note also that Canada has a relatively small population, so immigration figures as a percentage of overall population will be skewed much more than in the UK, other large European countries or, of course, the US.
Bakery Hill wrote:MERIZoC wrote:Which is why you want to implement protections and strong labour standards as well. Capitalists love the current system because the combination of undocumented labour and weak wage standards mean they can get away with paying workers a lot less. If you let anyone live and work here legally, you won't have immigrants taking 2 dollar an hour jobs, you have them doing 15 dollar an hour jobs like everyone else, after you set a good minimum wage.
Even in a country with relatively strong labour standards like the UK or Australia this doesn't work. Just because you set laws doesn't mean they're followed, only good unions can assure that. That's why labour hire companies fly in people from abroad with no connection and sometimes no union heritage/experience, to bust them. The only real way around this that I can think of is a closed shop model, which under capitalism would basically de facto end open borders anyway.
But I mean in the end open borders is about abolishing the state which means abolishing capitalism
Which is not going to happen in the near future, to be generous. To talk about open borders at this stage of the struggle is ridiculous. It's really giving neoliberalism a leg up and shooting ourselves in the foot at the same time.
Sounds like you're arguing against the entire concept of skilled labour visas which is a weird thing to be against, and is rather unconnected to open borders.
I'd disagree on both counts, for the reasons outlined.