AngelOfDisease said:
I would suggest Stalinist by the book if I had not sensed you as a Trotskyist before.
"Stalinism" implies much more than an opposition to a kind of internationalism that had obviously motivated communists before. (Lenin's willingness to give away so much Russian territory to Germany just in order to end WW I ASAP can probably not be explained without remembering how they had international long-term plans.) "Stalinism" also implies a terrorist secret police regime, NKVD, Gulags, surveillance and generally all the good stuff only the US empire is allowed to do in their quest to spread freedom and democracy all over the world.
And I don't want any of that. Not even the "nationalism"! As long as there are different ruling classes in control of different nation-states, there will inevitably be war. That does not mean, however, that a so-called "peace" with only one gigantic, all-powerful ruling class ruling over all the world is much better. This "peace" is only the absence of uprisings and wars because there's no one left with enough power to challenge the empire.
In that regard, "globalism" is also a euphemism. After the end of the cold war, the monopolized mega-capital in the hands of a few US billionaires is about to rule and blackmail the whole word with US nuclear weapons, US military, US judges, US artists, academia and media. And now they're about to destroy the last pitiful remains non-American capital: first and foremost in the hands of Russia and China. (Say what you want about boomers etc., but when the US empire attacked Serbia to give Catholic Croatian fascists and Islamic Bosniacs the opportunity to split away from the central Yugoslavian government, there were still people demonstrating against this imperialism. When the US empire destroyed Iraq, which was a relatively secular place under Saddam Hussein, people were still demonstrating. With Libya, Syria and Russia today, however, it was and is the opposite: now you're considered a right-winger or "Stalinist" or Russian hacker if you DO NOT want the US to "liberate" these countries.)
Their nationality matters in so far as it gives them control over US military and US courts etc., but it doesn't mean that they are "nationalists" or "patriots" or something. Nationalism was USED in the past, it's something for peasants, pleb-tier. Now, they prefer open borders so they can go either to misery (outsourcing) or import misery ("Refugees welcome!") in order to drive down wages, drive up rents and make strikes impossible. It's good for them if there are as many people as possible competing tooth and nail for fewer and fewer jobs. (Also one of the reasons why the "elites", how good little servants call the ruling class, somehow don't manage to implement their "depopulation agenda." Quite the opposite, we have more and more people, 7.5 Billion now, competing for fewer and fewer jobs, the environment is getting destroyed but despite all their power, the "elites" don't manage to "depopulate" the world. And they won't, because it's good for them if you have billions of poor people competing with each other and be willing to work more for lower wages and pay higher rents.)
And if THAT opposition to open borders is "Stalinist", then Marx and Engels themselves were Stalinists. Which is an argument, you can obviously make, if you want, but then you can just leave the whole "Stalinism" away to begin with. To quote Friedrich Engels, talking about the immigration of impoverished Irish workers to Englang in 1845:
Friedrich Engels, writing on Irish immigration in 1845, first quoted historian Thomas Carlyle to explain: “The Irishman is there to undertake all work that can be done by mere strength of hand and back — for wages that will purchase him potatoes. He needs only salt for condiment, he lodges to his mind in any pig-hutch or dog-hutch (…). The Saxon-man, if he cannot work on these terms, finds no work.” Engels agreed and continued himself, “These Irishmen who migrate for fourpence to England, on the deck of a steamship on which they are often packed like cattle, insinuate themselves everywhere. The worst dwellings are good enough for them; their clothing causes them little trouble, so long as it holds together by a single thread; shoes they know not; their food consists of potatoes and potatoes only; whatever they earn beyond these needs they spend upon drink. What does such a race want with high wages? (…) The majority of the families who live in cellars are almost everywhere of Irish origin. In short, the Irish have discovered the minimum of the necessities of life, and are now making the English workers acquainted with it. (…) With such a competitor the English working-man has to struggle, with a competitor upon the lowest plane possible in a civilised country, who for this very reason requires less wages than any other. Nothing else is therefore possible than that, as Carlyle says, the wages of English working-man should be forced down further and further in every branch in which the Irish compete with him.”
http://archive.is/0lgQy
Even Bernie Sanders would be considered a "Stalinist" then:
“Open borders? That’s a Koch brothers proposal. That’s a right-wing proposal, which says essentially there is no United States. It would make everybody in America poorer —you’re doing away with the concept of a nation state, and I don’t think there’s any country in the world that believes in that. If you believe in a nation state or in a country called the United States or UK or Denmark or any other country, you have an obligation in my view to do everything we can to help poor people. What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy. Bring in all kinds of people, work for $2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them. I don’t believe in that. I think we have to raise wages in this country, I think we have to do everything we can to create millions of jobs. You know what youth unemployment is in the United States of America today? If you’re a white high school graduate, it’s 33 percent, Hispanic 36 percent, African American 51 percent. You think we should open the borders and bring in a lot of low-wage workers, or do you think maybe we should try to get jobs for those kids?”
http://archive.is/1XQlI
