[lbo-talk] Close the Prisons Re: Irish priests beat, raped children

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamar at itamarst.org
Fri May 22 06:11:25 PDT 2009


On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 18:55 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:


> I left out, however, one more important slogan: Open Borders.

Open borders isn't specifically leftist. It could just as well be a libertarian slogan: free markets work better with labor mobility, and AFAIK the combination was much more common in the pre-1914 "golden age". Comparative advantage and all that, some countries have too many people, others will soon have too few.

On the other hand Ron Paul is not a libertarian on this point, being on the closed borders side. So possibly in the US, at least, you cold use this as a leftist rallying cry.



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