RileyDeWiley
22nd March 2007, 06:19
Jean Raspail wrote a controversial novel way back in the Seventies in which the poorest and most wretched people in the Third World comandeer old ships and sail them for Europe and North America, beaching them on the shores, and then disembarking and simply walking into the cities and taking whatever they needed.
Raspail has been derided as a reactionary, but as mass immigration has increased, he is also praised as prescient. Indeed, since he wrote the book, many of the things he described have come to pass, notably people showing up on Western shores in decrepit boats.
Does anyone here see Raspail's vision as being a blueprint for a utopian, Socialist future? Rather than mass revolution, could a global society of equality come to pass through mass immigration into wealthier nations, followed by a general liberation of material goods?
Does anyone else out there see it this way? :unsure:
Or did anyone even read the damn book? :blush:
Riley
Raspail has been derided as a reactionary, but as mass immigration has increased, he is also praised as prescient. Indeed, since he wrote the book, many of the things he described have come to pass, notably people showing up on Western shores in decrepit boats.
Does anyone here see Raspail's vision as being a blueprint for a utopian, Socialist future? Rather than mass revolution, could a global society of equality come to pass through mass immigration into wealthier nations, followed by a general liberation of material goods?
Does anyone else out there see it this way? :unsure:
Or did anyone even read the damn book? :blush:
Riley