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Hello!
Good day comrades! Glad to be part of RevLeft.
Been lurking for a bit now, primarily hoping to learn more about contemporary leftist views in light of increased reactionary tendencies across Europe. I'm fairly new to posting in forums such as these, so I'll try to keep it concise for now.
Good health to you all and I look forward to contributing!
Welcome to RevLeft, HeimlichBandersnatch. I love the name I have to say.
Coming to learn is good, we're all here to learn, I think, so in that spirit, can I ask what your views are on the current situation in Europe and how the working class can respond?
Critique of the Gotha Programme, Pt IV: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1875/gotha/ch04.htm
No War but the Class War
Destroy All Nations
Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC): "A man whose life has been dishonorable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death."
Thanks! Increasingly it seems that a sense of nationalist contumacy towards globalism is substituting class consciousness among the working class. Certainly where I'm from in the northern UK many have responded to economic anxieties with contempt towards the perceived 'left' i.e. confederate neoliberalism. Discussing this with fellow workers often leads them to criticise the free movement of peoples, rather than that of capital.
I think a more productive use of this energy would be for workers to question their own stake in the world labor market. While it's all well and good arguing increased immigration devalues the labor of workers in that country, one cannot help thinking the problem lies with systems that allow employers to take such low-demand immigrant labor on, given the disgraceful conditions many work in (like the 2015 DJ Houghton case with the conditions of their Lithuanian workers). As horrible as they are, cases like these seem merely symptomatic until the real problem is acknowledged, one which reformist politics cannot truly address.
