Lampedusa

African migrants

The sinking of a boat carrying undocumented migrants to Italy from Africa off Lampedusa island is being exploited by politicians and activists internationally to whip up sympathy for illegal immigration. The dead were not slaves or hapless victims of human trafficking. They were voluntary violators of laws, regardless of their motivations. They were not martyrs to any worthy cause. They were individuals who decided to flee unpleasant circumstances in badly administered nations  for a developed country with social benefits. 

Their plight and ultimate fate were truly disturbing. They were most likely born to ignorant parents, who had no sense of fiscal responsibility for the lives they brought into the world. They were most likely brought into the world to ultimately support those uneducated (or traditionalist) parents actually. If they had succeeded to make it to Europe, they would most likely have been expected to support the family in their home country with regular payments. There are those in Europe and the United States who would say this process is just fine, a way of bringing up the undeveloped world with money from the developed world. But what of the human cost to those migrants and their children? How well will this theory work if the number of migrants eventually bankrupts the countries they invade?

Global capitalism is anti-human. It is truly a Darwinist religion which worships aggression, competition and wealth over human kindness and universal socioeconomic equality. This is the root cause of Lampedusa's tragedy. There is no discussion of the overall system which caused the tragedy. Why? Because the governments of the developed world are controlled by capitalist predators. Even China and India have caught the capitalist disease. 

The international Left is confused and unfocused. It is divided by new-feminist obsession with reproductive rights (as opposed to sexual rights), irrational positions on migration, vapid multiculturalism and fear of being called "socialist" or "collective". The Right is richer and richer. It controls money and power. It calls the shots in education, thereby indoctrinating the young minds of the world into accepting the status quo with soothing (and false) statistics about raising all boats on the rising tide of minority wealth. 

The drownings off Lampedusa, pirate attacks off Somalia, drug cartels in Central America, government dysfunction in Washington, military domination in Egypt....all are related to poverty, lack of education and overpopulation. Global capitalism is not solving these problems; it is exploiting these problems for profit. That is simply what corporate capitalism does.