Re: Against Andrea Nagle's rightwing-masquerading-as-left tract on "open borders"

2018-12-05 Thread Eric Beck
It's perhaps worth mentioning also that clowns like Nagle and Zizek aren't the only leftists who have aligned with Krein. He's also recruited respectable Trotskyists and Keynesians, Nancy Fraser and Dean Baker respectively, to his nationalist project. Fraser wrote an article framing the current

Re: Against Andrea Nagle's rightwing-masquerading-as-left tract on "open borders"

2018-11-28 Thread Angela Mitropoulos
Right, thanks Martha, *American Affair*, not *National Affairs*. Point still stands: *American Affair* is trying to distinguish nationalism from the embarrassment it has suffered at the hands of Trump. As for "half-joking" about Zizek, the 'joke' is that Zizek has been arguing for a red-brown

Re: Against Andrea Nagle's rightwing-masquerading-as-left tract on "open borders"

2018-11-28 Thread martha rosler
smallish correction, but worth mentioning. Nagle’s article was published in American Affairs. something of a successor to National Affairs, but not with quite the aims associated with that mag. and here’s more than you need to know 'In an interview, Mr. Krein semi-jokingly described the

Re: Against Andrea Nagle's rightwing-masquerading-as-left tract on "open borders"

2018-11-28 Thread Angela Mitropoulos
Brian wrote: Citizenship is based on rights and responsibilities. If citizens do not > have the right to be protected against the wage competition fostered by > neoliberal open-border policies, they will not accept the responsibility of > paying taxes for social programs. This is economic

Re: Against Andrea Nagle's rightwing-masquerading-as-left tract on "open borders"

2018-11-28 Thread Flick Harrison
>What we're currently witnessing is a rift between a neo-traditionalist socialist political left >and an intersectional political left. The former wants to re-focus all political struggle on >(traditional) class struggle and the restoration of the welfare state, arguing that the latter >can only

Re: Against Andrea Nagle's rightwing-masquerading-as-left tract on "open borders"

2018-11-28 Thread Florian Cramer
> Although not directly related to technology per se I found it related to our current discussions on the polis and inclusion, as well as a > continuing commentary on how the online right operates deftly in ostensibly leftist spaces. This is completely related to our previous discussion of

Against Andrea Nagle's rightwing-masquerading-as-left tract on "open borders"

2018-11-27 Thread frank tigrero
We've discussed Nagle before, how she was the go-to person after 2016 for those seeking to understand the (largely fictionally overinflated) online pepe right. Here she is again making xenophobic right wing claims on "open borders". Although not directly related to technology per se I found it