>>Doug makes the right point, IMO.
>>
>>You could have the same problem under socialism.
>>Imagine two nations, one rich, the second less so,
>>and social benefits that paralleled their overall
>>resources. There would be the same interest in
>>conditioning benefits on citizenship and related
>>obligations. Inequality breeds exclusion, and
>>capitalism is not a necessary condition for
>>inequality.
>>
>>mbs
>
>Why not, then, say that the problem is inequality, rather than citizenship?
Inequality is partly constructed around citizenship. Someone at the U.S. poverty line is at the 98th percentile of the world income distribution. You can't just wave that away with yet another binary.
Doug