In this episode we will discuss what the left-wing arguments against immigration are, why right-wing parties sometimes deliver high immigration numbers, and what the historic relationship between the left and migration is.
Timestamps:
- 0:00 introduction, what I mean by "left"
- 3:55 wages
- 9:10 rents and public services
- 16:20 culture and social cohesion
- 28:35 crime
- 36:55 (digression - "the immaterial left"
- 45:08 (historical digression - Asahi Heigo and political violence as a response to immateriality)
- 48: 15: Ecology
- 54:48: Indigenous Rights
- 58:25: Brain Drain
- 1:06:07: Addressing some pro immigration arguments from the right and left
- 1:14:15: (digression - "Cruelty Theatre")
- 1: 19:35: History - Marx, Engels, Kearney, and Chavez on migrant crises
- 1: 39:43: History - Debs in favor of internationalism
- 1: 46: 00: Thought terminating cliches about immigration
- 1: 50: 30: Terrifying predictions of the future and how to avoid them