Negri on globo

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>Auschwitz wasn't inevitable even in Germany, much less other "nation states."
>
>Few things in social life are inevitable, but consider this - the 
>good things you've mentioned that some nation-states provide, like 
>social benefits, do depend on notions of citizenship, which depend 
>on notions of exclusion. The Scandinavian welfare state, as 
>admirable as it is, couldn't survive a regime of open borders. Nor 
>could even our very minimal welfare state in the U.S. survive free 
>traffic across the Rio Grande. It makes me uncomfortable to confront 
>these sorts of facts, but they're real. What do you make of them?
>
>Doug

Why attribute the limits of social welfare to the idea of 
citizenship, rather than to capitalism?  Capitalism limits the 
quantity and quality of social welfare, even with zero cross-border 
migration.
-- 
Yoshie

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