Splitting hairs

And here we have semantics from the socialists in charge of the strike:

The argument is not against foreign workers, it’s against foreign companies discriminating against British labour.  This is a fight for work.  It is not a racist argument at all.

Which is, of course, nonsense, given that the trade unions want the foreign workers to go home, rather than ’steal’ ‘their’ ‘jobs’.  As anyone that has (very quickly) read Jonah Goldberg’s book, as recommended in the last post, knows, the so-called ‘far-right’ is nothing but the far-left in disguise, separated by a quirk of history and Stalin’s megalomaniacal personality.

Alternatively, for a shorter read, see Ayn Rand’s commentary on the relation between socialism and racism in the Virtue of Selfishness.  Like class, racism is a collectivist ideology, based around grouping - and hating - people together based on a single characteristic of theirs.  Individuals, of course, have more to say for themselves than the colour of their skin or the coat of arms on their passport.  Socialists will never let them open their mouths.