Alain de Benoist
(Translated from the French by Tom Sunic )
In 1973, shortly before his death, the French President Georges Pompidou admitted
to have opened the floodgates of immigration, at a request of a number of big
businessmen, such as Francis Bouygues, who was eager to take advantage of docile
and cheap labor devoid of class consciousness and of any tradition of social struggle.
This move was meant to exert downward pressure on the wages of French workers,
reduce their protesting zeal, and in addition, break up the unity of the labor
movement. Big bosses, he said, "always want more."
Forty years later nothing has changed. At a time when no political party would dare to
ask for further acceleration of the pace of immigration, only big employers seem to be
in favor of it — simply because it is in their interest. The only difference is that the
affected economic sectors are now more numerous, going beyond the industrial
sector and the hotel and catering service sector — now to include once "protected"
professions, such as engineers and computer scientists.
[...]
France is today experiencing migrant settlements, which is a direct consequence of
the family reunification policy. However, more than ever before immigrants represent
the reserve army of capital.
In this sense it is amazing to observe how the networks on behalf of the
"undocumented," run by the far-left (which seems to have discovered in immigrants
its "substitute proletariat") serve the interests of big business. Criminal networks,
smugglers of people and goods, big business, "human rights" activists, and under-
the-table employers — all of them, by virtue of the global free market, have become
cheerleaders for the abolition of frontiers.
[...]
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its
first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent
about capitalism, should do the same.
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