LP implies he is a Marxist. No Marxist insists that proletarian internationalism includes open borders in all times and situations. For example, Lenin had occasion to say:
What does the “method” of socialist revolution under the slogan “Down with frontiers” mean? We maintain that the state is necessary, and a state presupposes frontiers. The state, of course, may hold a bourgeois government, but we need the Soviets. But even Soviets are confronted with the question of frontiers. What does “Down with frontiers” mean? It is the beginning of anarchy. ... The “method” of socialist revolution under the slogan “Down with frontiers” is simply a mess. Only when the socialist revolution has become a reality, and not a method, will the slogan “Down with frontiers” be a correct slogan. Then we shall say: Comrades, come to us... https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/7thconf/29d.htm The argument must be made for the specific economic and political situation. Quoting an anecdote about a town in France accomplishes nothing. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
