One issue is that the "new" left just can't get over open borders. It is in fact a major point of friction between traditional socialists and the more modern ones. The problem with that is as the article describes:<p>> Young workers must accept that our fate relies on our co-operation. If I accept an unpaid internship, I have undercut my generation. I have not only devalued my labour but that of my peers too. I am complicit in the denigration of my generation.<p>This same issue applies, as can be easily observed in any large city, to immigrants.<p>Having a fair labour market is fundamentally incompatible with free movement of goods (meaning we need to heavily tax your ipad if we are to have more equality) and with the free movement of labour (meaning equality and open borders are fundamentally incompatible <i>).<p></i> one might say, but not if we have worldwide socialism. That is right to an extent, but that effectively means that long as there are a few exploitative states we can't have socialism and fair labour markets anywhere else.<p>Needless to say, there is lots of propaganda about how it's "racist" to be opposed to large scale people movement, even though the economic reason for it is obvious in any large city : to enable the economic exploitation of the weak by the powerful.<p>I'm just hoping that at some point we can accept that "I want closed borders to improve labour conditions" will be recognized as obviously the non-racist opinion (and open borders, since it's real effect is exploitation of "the other", recognized as the racist option)