Interesting stuff from Lenin's Tomb (hat tip: Chris Dillow):
Occasionally, if you open the Economist or the FT, you'll read an argument that runs something like this: people shouldn't be bigoted toward immigrants, because by they do jobs that British workers won't do for pay that British workers won't accept. In a similar way, you often hear members of the Institute of Directors or the CBI explain that 'globalisation' and international outsourcing is an excellent thing because it gives jobs to hard-working people in Third World countries who work much harder, and are much less demanding, than spoilt, recalcitrant Western workers. This is the zenith of ruling class anti-racism, and it's just another argument for exploitation. And it is, of course, deeply racist toward the recipients of its supposed benediction.
I have to say that I know longer know what racism is and what being a racist means. I feel like the Supreme Court Justices when they were trying to rule on pornography and had to define obscenity. I'm puzzled and stuck in the middle of an intellectual Sahara on this issue.
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