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this kind of criticism is the hardest thing

Criticism bearing our abrasive tone and uncompromising stance is sometimes derided as lowdown or (worse yet) easy. But the truth is, this kind of criticism is the hardest thing in the world to produce if you happen to live in a culture ruled by the dicta of positive thinking and dread of the existe…

—p.5 No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler Introduction (1) by Chris Lehmann, John Summers, Thomas Frank
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capital manipulates the immigration question

[...] capital manipulates the immigration question. For if capital is no longer concerned with securing an immigration flow, it has every reason to exploit immigration as a source of division within the working class. It is not hypocrisy for Donald Trump to both provoke anti-immigrant sentiment whi…

—p.37 Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 4 The Case for Open Borders (7) missing author
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a kind of trickle-down economics of the Left

[...] In the past thirty years, mass migration to the US reached levels unseen for a century, and those thirty years have not been a period of prosperity and wage growth for the working class, but the opposite. For those American workers who have experienced declining wages, long periods of unemplo…

—p.36 The Case for Open Borders (7) missing author