Regardless of what leads people to migrate, it is not the duty of the populace of their new lands to welcome them. I only care for what they can provide, not for what they've undergone, especially when my own homeland is being bled dry by politicians and failing social systems.
It can be easy to look away when our societies still benefit from historical exploitation.
I'm not asking specific individuals to save other, the problem happens when we elector promote people who prevent society as a whole to take care of the ones in need. Our societies have responsiblities. We destroyed, we exploited and profited from the global south. Now, because of what we did or still do, people are forced to come and migrate or to wage war. Aknowleging our responsibilities in the matter and acting ethically accordingly to this reality is absolutely necessary for us to help ourselves.
I can "respect" someone saying "it's not my problem" as long as they understand that we are part of a society that has ethical responsibilities. The problem comes when that attitude becomes a political program that perpetuates poverty and marginalization.
There is a sayin that everyone imperatively needs to understand:
"I'm not free until everyone else is free"
Pushing ourselves aside from the problematic created by our own societies will not solve our problems but will only make them worse.
Because the solutions to help ourself are also the one needed to help these people
Regardless of what pity I may have felt, the moment they approached me like an invader or coloniser is the moment I treated them as opposition
We are colonizers
Our europpean nations have a colonial history that is still perpetuated to this day. We live in imperial states in a neo-colonial era. We are
still stripping the global south from their ressources, directly our indirectly, we are
still exploitating people, we are
still dehumanizing them.
It's not about blaming individuals and it's not an illusion,
it's reality. And the impact of our past actions can't be scrapped in a little century or two without any measures or reparations. Our countries destroyed everything. Now it's time to pay the due.
You're incorrect though. Criminality is not all desperation. It is as much opportunism. They see an opportunity and take it. When I was a child, I was homeless. My family did not result to assaulting and robbing people. My mother worked two jobs as a single woman. You cannot excuse bad behaviour so simply.
I hear your experience and the strong work of your family. I can't dismiss that. But this is an exception confirming the rules of oppression.
Stability or education or the access to opportunities even in the most difficult moments like homelessness or oppression are taught and secured by social conditions not just by will power alone.
Leftism praxis aims at understanding the mechanism behind these principles..
Understanding that certain material conditions and realities leads to behavior like crimes or sometimes success in sometimes very similar condition is fundamental.
It's not about excusing, it's about understanding. Sometimes, there are systems and conditions at play that are invisible to us, but are completely life changing on the long term. Some people don't have these conditions or don't have the luxury of just not commiting any thief.
We can't rise from a situation simply out our pure will when the conditions are not met. It takes a refundation of the system shaping the behaviors to do that.
You peddle in as much fear-mongering as the right you bemoan.
Now this is right. I do try to bring you to fear fascism.
This is true. But there is something you do not take into account :
When the far right uses fear to promote reactionnary politics or rethoric, they are doing it based on their biases, their racism, fake systemism and fake informations.
BUT
When I'm trying to make you fear the rise of Fascism,
I have historians and scientific behind me trying to wake you up as well
If I'm starting to panic, it's because the rest of the world don't. And worse, some people want to make things worse through reactionnary politics
without understanding one bit what monster they are creating. (
well some actually do, and they were marching in the street with Nazi salute)
Yes. I'm telling you to be scared of the monster you are promoting, not because I'm delusionnal, but because I know my history and I listen to the expert who are trying to warn the population that fascism is coming.
Your sympathies do not seem to lie with the struggling natives, only those who you see as "victims" in your wider hierarchy. Different priorities I suppose?
You mean Europpeans ? Why use the term "native" ? Do you think we are being colonized right now ?
I do care about people who don't have a job, people like me who are marginalized, people who are dehumanized and exploited not matter their origin. That's why I'm a leftist.
I'm a marxist, meaning that I'm also anticapitalist, I'm against a society with class. But I understand that racism helps capitalism and capitalism helps racism. I won't be able to really be anticapitalism unless I'm an antiracist and anticolonist too. Because the weapon that are aimed at racialized or migrants people right now, will be aimed at me next.
ALL STRUGGLES ARE INTERCONNECTED.
I'm not free until EVERYONE is free
.