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A common flavor of mockery is to find leftist posts about "what I'll do after the socialist revolution" and ridicule them. We were discussing the genre and the general amusement at folks that think they will have a quasi-aristocratic life: oh I'll work on the commune garden and teach embroidery and prepare meals for everyone. Weirdly, many of the posts by women ended up being weirdly trad too -- but that's a bit of a sidetrack.
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My friend had an important insight: there is probably a rightist/reactionary equivalent to this. That's a good observation. We came up with a few of these
What would actually probably happen is my immediate social superiors blatanlty and short-sightedly exploiting me in a parallel to peasant-lord relationships, and me rediscovering why there were so many peasant uprisings and why feudalism couldn't compete.
MFW even my exploitative baron would still at least defend his castle from being invaded by foreigners. So it goes! I'm not a reactionary by any means, but Gregory Clark in The Son Also Rises has interesting analysis claiming similar degrees of social mobility during feudalism as the modern era, as well as stickiness in high-class surnames within the high-class pointing to real genetic differentiation between classes.
In 2025 your baron would have economic advisors who would correctly explain to him that his tax revenue and fiefdom GDP would increase if he allowed more people to enter.
Hereditary landowners love love LOVE bringing in exploitable labor from foreign ethnic groups. I can understand why right wing parties are opposed to immigrants. I can't understand why right wing parties aren't opposed to the farming and industrial interests responsible for encouraging their entrance in the first place. If they actually want to stop immigration, they need to eliminate the pull factors. Criminalise paying illegal immigrants. Criminalize accepting non-money payments from illegal immigrants. Lock up the suburbanites using maid services, and the factory and agrobusiness owners, and pretty soon illegal immigrants don't have a reason to stay in america. Even if they're feloniously on welfare... Healthcare, food, education, and housing is still cheaper back home.
Oh well. I like immigration so I guess this works out in my favor.
It never stops making me laugh that anti-immigrant Americans fucking despise the immigrants but not the Americans who pay them illegally for their labor, which is why they're in America at all.
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