A few weeks ago, Peter Sutherland made it clear to the House
of Lords that he believed European countries must be forced to become
multicultural through further opening their borders to mass immigration from
Africa and Asia. Earlier this week, we had the first release of data from the
2011 census that revealed that the officially recorded population of England
and Wales had grown at the fastest rate over any 10-year period since the
census began in 1801, with this rise being fuelled predominantly by an
historically unprecedented wave of immigration and higher birth rates amongst
the immigrant-descended population. Yet, despite economic crisis, permanent
mass unemployment, a housing shortage and increasing social Balkanisation,
Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs, has reiterated her
belief in an interview with Le Monde that “Immigration will be necessary for
Europe”.
In the interview, conducted in Brussels and published on 10
July, Malmström elaborated upon her earlier comments that immigration to the EU
constituted “not a threat, but an opportunity” and should be considered as “a
factor of growth”. Moreover, she has described the Arab Spring as an
“historical opportunity”, but was critical of the manner in which the EU had
reacted, believing that popular hostility to being flooded by a human exodus
from North Africa had “led to a deterioration of our relations with these
countries”. In her evaluation of the outcome of the Arab Spring she naively
interprets it as expressive of “reclaiming liberty and the rights of man”.
Quite how that squares with the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power in Egypt,
Islamists winning elections in Tunisia and dominating post-Qaddhafi Libya, it
is difficult to say, for by any rational and objective set of criteria Islamism
sets itself in direct opposition to the notion of such rights, for Islam
recognises the supremacy of its ‘divine’ Sharia over all manmade law.
Although it may be wise to follow Zhou Enlai’s cryptic
comment about the impact of the French Revolution (was he referring to 1789 or
to 1968?) by stating that “it is too soon to say” what the eventual outcome of
the Arab Spring may be, what seems to have happened thus far is that one form
of authoritarianism has been substituted for another. Particularistic national
authoritarianisms have been traded for a religious variant, with a limited
national colouration and universalist aspirations. Malmström appears incapable
of grasping this primary fact, this incomprehension seemingly rooted in her
inability to see beyond an economistic reductionism which fails to take into
account the centrality of people’s cultural identities, as well as their
economic situation. Her thinking, if perhaps not strictly speaking Marxist, is
certainly in this respect Marxisant.
This blindness to the salience of culture, and to its deep
civilisational underpinnings which find expression in structuring distinctive
worldviews and psychologies, thus leads individuals such as Malmström to view
human beings as interchangeable economic units, not as distinctive beings
imbued with integral identities without which there can be no meaningful sense
of self. Although the Mediterranean world may have been unified politically
and to a considerable extent culturally during late Antiquity, it no longer is
so, and has not been since the arrival of Islam in the Seventh Century. To
ignore the fundamental differences that have grown since this time is myopic in
the extreme, and whereas recognition of this difference is well understood in
the Muslim world, it is systematically denied by those of a PC multiculturalist
bent in Europe.With Malmström, the spirit of Euromed is very much alive and kicking.
Ignorance of the centrality of culture is leading to the
adoption of disastrous demographic and economic policies for native Europeans.
Le Monde, unsurprisingly gave Malmström a sympathetic platform, formulaically
referring in pejorative fashion to “the rise of populist and xenophobic forces”
in northern Europe, with the interviewee singling out Geert Wilders for special
opprobrium. Malmström peddles the official EU line that is familiar to all in
Britain today that mass immigration is “necessary” because of our ageing
societies. This assertion is false. We have permanent mass unemployment and it
should be our aim to match the unemployed with the vacancies in our economy.
Where they lack the requisite skills, they should be trained. Moreover, as
Greece knows much to its cost, many immigrants possess no skills, and come in
search of only what they can take by way of benefits, wishing to assert their
“human rights” without taking on any national responsibilities.
Malmström’s opinions are therefore far from unusual amongst members
of the EU’s governing oligarchy, but we should take note of what she says
because of her influential position and consequent ability to shape policy. I
close therefore with her words on the need for the “new immigration”, the implications of
which I ask you to reflect upon:
Yes, but the reality is there. The role of the Brussels Commission is also to encourage politicians to take this into account. To envisage the problems in the long term, and to rise above national contingencies. Besides, the academic world considers what I say to be perfectly commonplace …
The hated and despised version of this is known as colonisation. Bad if whites do it, OK in reverse. Black is good, choc ice the worst?
ReplyDeleteIt seems that some believe it not only to be "OK", but even "virtuous" (more's the pity for us).
DeleteYet more evidence of the endemic anti-Europeanism at the heart of the EU political project. There is now an entrenched political class and cultural elite right across Western Europe which is steeped in internationalist and what you term 'Marxisant' thinking and objectives. We have to allow that the encroachment of the internationalists within the institutions was made easier by the onset of consumerism, the aftermath of WW2 and the process of post-colonialism which facilitated the weakening and rejection of the principles of of national identity and national interest by Western European governments; they have seized their opportunity. We have to allow, also, that nationalist movements have in the main failed to counter the tenouous claims to moral superiority of internationalism wherin lies much of its superficial appeal to idealism.
ReplyDeleteIt is clear that there now exists a class of careerists who understand that you have to 'tow the line ' in order to personally succeed in society and that there also exists an ideological rule of fear which must be obeyed in order for the individual to 'get anywhere' in society. It has a cauterising effect upon debate, discourse and the spirit of democracy. On a micro level we see how the expression of opinions and values which counter liberalism and internationalism are increasingly regarded as heretical, 'indecent' 'uncool' 'bigoted' etc and that the individual who errs from political correctness risks becoming socially ostracised and with limited career prospects. Tories like Michael Gove have played their part in this as much as the Harriet Harmans.
Salford Nationalist
It is odd that in doing what they do they believe themselves to be acting in an exemplary moral fashion. As for Gove, he is indeed not that far removed from Harman at all in his worldview.
DeleteUnfortunately we do not get the creme de la creme we get the shite of the shite with a bit of shiite on a sunni day and a sprinkling of wahabi nuts.......
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Very good (especially considering the exceptionally early hour at which you wrote)!
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ReplyDeleteWhy do Marxists, particularly female ones, look so bitter and vengeful?
The EU is not going away. EU politicians are already in the process of even more Europe in the wake of the Euro crisis. That means even more power to the Maoist Barroso and his fellow travelers.
The only silver lining I see is that eventually the Euro, and along with the EU, will collapse, just as the USSR. It will though leave a wasteland, as in Russia now, teeming with Muslims and criminals from every continent.
I think that in the picture in question she was aiming for that 'heroic' look that you see on the flags featuring Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin in profile. Then again, maybe she is just a bit sour.
DeleteWhat can be done about people who arrogantly dictate the world we live in without reference to the interests of the people? They ignore the social and economic costs to citizens, they ignore the will of the majority, and there seems to be no democratic means to stop them forcing their ideas on us.
ReplyDeleteThey ignore the opposition for mass immigration, ignore the social upheaval created by large numbers of immigrants who bring different values and a clash of cultures, and ignore the aims and intentions of Islam itself. They seem blind and deaf to the threats of its followers to implement Islam worldwide, despite ample evidence confirming those intentions.
This is how revolutions start when arrogant unaccountable leaders ignore the will and interests of the people they are supposed to represent. It goes beyond myopic, its criminal negligence to the point of treason.
They promote mass immigration and advise us to ‘…rise above national contingencies. Besides, the academic world considers what I say to be perfectly commonplace …’
Someone should remind these fools there are large number of academics who don’t subscribe to such views, and regardless of that, no academic holds any democratic mandate to dictate policy, whatever views they hold.
Advancing policies which result in turning their backs on their own nation’s interests or the interests of its people in order to serve some blinkered ideology or narrow self-interest is nothing less than treason. Though the perpetrators prefer to describe it as progressive thinking.
The opening of your question veers rather close to the title of a book penned by Nikolai Chernyshevskii and plagiarised by a certain Lenin: "What is to be done?" We can grumble, and hopefully hang on to our sanity. More importantly though, I still think that we can do something in a political vein to tackle this, but that's a matter that will have to wait until tomorrow morning (that is, literally tomorrow morning rather than manana).
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