Marx on Immigration Marx wrote little about immigration, even though the international movement of people was certainly a common phenomenon by the middle of the nineteenth century. But when he did address the issue, he quickly extended his perspective towards political economy. In 1870 he wrote a letter to two of his U.S. collaborators concerning British policy toward Ireland. Marx wrote that the British aristocracy and bourgeoisie shared an interest turning Ireland into mere “in pasture land which provides the English market with meat and wool at the cheapest possible prices.” And, the British capitalists had same interest in clearing the estates if Ireland as it “the had in the clearing of the agricultural districts of England and Scotland….Ireland constantly sends her own surplus [labor] to the English labor market, and thus forces down wages and lowers the material and moral position of the English working class.” Interestingly, Marx immediately extends his political economy of Irish immigration: most important of all! “And Every industrial and commercial centre in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats. Dugger’s dismal dialectic William Dugger (1989) has been recognized as predicting the corporate hegemony over the economy. In his 1989 book, he wrote:
Marx on Immigration Marx wrote little about immigration, even though the international movement of people was certainly a common phenomenon by the middle of the nineteenth century. But when he did address the issue, he quickly extended his perspective towards political economy. In 1870 he wrote a letter to two of his U.S. collaborators concerning British policy toward Ireland. Marx wrote that the British aristocracy and bourgeoisie shared an interest “in turning Ireland into mere pasture land which provides the English market with meat and wool at the cheapest possible prices.” And, the British capitalists had “the same interest in clearing the estates if Ireland as it had in the clearing of the agricultural districts of England and Scotland….Ireland constantly sends her own surplus [labor] to the English labor market, and thus forces down wages and lowers the material and moral position of the English working class.” Interestingly, Marx immediately extends his political economy of Irish immigration: “And most important of all! Every industrial and commercial centre in England now possesses a working class divided into two hostile camps, English proletarians and Irish proletarians. The ordinary English worker hates the Irish worker as a competitor who lowers his standard of life. In relation to the Irish worker he regards himself as a member of the ruling nation and consequently he becomes a tool of the English aristocrats. Dugger’s dismal dialectic William Dugger (1989) has been recognized as predicting the corporate hegemony over the economy. In his 1989 book, he wrote:
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