Mill, Lenin, Abortion, and "Free Trade"

You recall that J. S Mill (and Bentham) were proponents of the 'atomic individual' theories.  In combination, those theories re-appeared in the Lenin/Stalin years; the Communist luminaries proposed that any man could do any job with enough training.  Farming, machining, accounting--they're all the same, ya'know.

And of course, if any man can do any job, he can do it any place in the world!

The same thesis underlies "Free Trade."  Vox Day demonstrates.

....while most of the historical concerns about free trade have revolved around the societal costs of the free movement of goods, it is the free movement of labor that most thoroughly damns free-trade ideology and reveals it to be a utopian evil every bit as dangerous as communism, feminism and globalism. Free-trade advocates often point to the free movement of goods, capital and labor in the domestic economy and ask why the same system cannot work internationally since it works so well within the national borders. The reason is simple: The nation cannot continue to exist if the same degree of labor movement takes place across the borders as it presently does within them...

Oh?

...[Currently] just under half of all Americans between the ages of 25 and 44, 50.5 percent, still reside in the state in which they were born. This isn’t a big deal to most Americans. After all, the move from Michigan to Florida or from Minnesota to California is generally regarded as a step up in quality of life. But that’s not likely to be true on an international level.

Getting the picture??

...Because the labor cost difference between the U.S. and China is much greater than between Massachusetts and Texas, the pressure on Americans to move abroad in search of jobs would be even greater than presently exists in the domestic market. Enacting the same sort of free-trade regime on an international level as presently exists on the domestic level would require both a) a reduction in the American standard of living to one that is much closer global average, and b) the expatriation of more than 50 percent of young Americans under the age of 35.

So are you prepared to wish bon voyage to your children who are moving to PRChina?  Burma?  Vietnam?  Along with the tax revenues they will generate?

The Free Traders know it:

 Mr Sutherland, who is non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs International and a former chairman of oil giant BP, heads the Global Forum on Migration and Development, which brings together representatives of 160 nations to share policy ideas. He told the House of Lords committee migration was a “crucial dynamic for economic growth” in some EU nations “however difficult it may be to explain this to the citizens of those states.”

(The fact that he's a Goldie is only frosting on the cake.)

No Conservative can possibly embrace global free trade, any more than they can embrace free abortion.  The results are identical (mutatis mutandis).  Nonetheless, Gummints and Randian Industrialists will blather on and on about the "benefits," aided by such as Sutherland.

That apple is poisoned, Snow White.