Comments on: Travel and Labor Should Be Peaceful http://c4ss.org/content/612 building awareness of the market anarchist alternative Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:43:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Michael Bindner http://c4ss.org/content/612/comment-page-1#comment-528 Michael Bindner Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:04:29 +0000 http://c4ss.org/content/612#comment-528 First, Government welfare does not go to the interlopers, but to those who have the good sense to be born to them while they reside here. You are a citizen upon birth, no matter who your parents are - be they immigrants in the 20th century or freemen in the 19th. If conservatives had behaved themselves after the Civil War (an unlikely prospect) there would never be constitutional language creating anchor babies. Second, it is the borders, the verification requirements and governmental "right to work laws" that make immigrant labor attractive. If employers had to hire all workers at union rates with union priviledges you can be sure they would not hire immigrants unless the immigrants were more productive for the same wage. (This is why I find particular glee in watching business Republicans fighting Xenophobe Republicans on this issue, while the Democrats merrily register Latino Americans to vote in their party). I agree that government is the problem here, particularly when government is used to create a second class work force that can be exploited. The answer is not just to get rid of government, however, but to find a way to make sure that individuals are valued as other than factors of production, which can only come through changing the market for work and the ownership of the workplace., First, Government welfare does not go to the interlopers, but to those who have the good sense to be born to them while they reside here. You are a citizen upon birth, no matter who your parents are – be they immigrants in the 20th century or freemen in the 19th. If conservatives had behaved themselves after the Civil War (an unlikely prospect) there would never be constitutional language creating anchor babies.

Second, it is the borders, the verification requirements and governmental “right to work laws” that make immigrant labor attractive. If employers had to hire all workers at union rates with union priviledges you can be sure they would not hire immigrants unless the immigrants were more productive for the same wage. (This is why I find particular glee in watching business Republicans fighting Xenophobe Republicans on this issue, while the Democrats merrily register Latino Americans to vote in their party).

I agree that government is the problem here, particularly when government is used to create a second class work force that can be exploited. The answer is not just to get rid of government, however, but to find a way to make sure that individuals are valued as other than factors of production, which can only come through changing the market for work and the ownership of the workplace.,

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