Where Were the Marxists for Open Borders when the Berlin Wall was Still Standing?

One question surrounding the current immigration debate is why Democrats and leftist activists have become so invested in maintaining a wage-depressing flow of immigrants into America. (It's pretty obvious why the Republican business class favors it).

The RI Future post on today’s immigration demonstration in Providence provides a clue. The title of the post is “March for the American Dream”. Here’s the lineup of the groups that were scheduled to march…

The coalition includes Council 94, AFSCME, ACORN, the Guatemalan Alliance, Direct Action for Rights and Equality (DARE), English for Action, Immigrant Students in Action, ONA, New Dawn, Jobs with Justice, the International Socialist Organization, and the Mexican-American Association of Rhode Island.

Here is how the International Socialist Organization describes itself on its website…

The International Socialist Organization (ISO) is committed to building an organization that participates in the struggles for justice and liberation today--and, ultimately, for a future socialist society…

The misery that millions of people around the world face is rooted in the society we live in--capitalism, where the few who rule profit from the labor of the vast majority of the population…

A world free of exploitation--socialism--is not only possible but worth fighting for. The ISO stands in the tradition of revolutionary socialists Karl Marx, V.I. Lenin and Leon Trotsky in the belief that workers themselves--the vast majority of the population--are the only force that can lead the fight to win a socialist society.

The ISO’s goals are pretty clear; they advocate the destruction of capitalism via revolution (that's them talking, not me) raising a few questions about their motivation for supporting an open borders policy as well as questions about how widespread their beliefs are…

1. Does the ISO view ending capitalism as part of “the American Dream”?
2. Does the ISO view support for an open borders policy as a way to accelerate the decline of capitalism and the rise of socialism in the United States?
3. Do the other groups marching today share the goal of ending capitalism and view an open borders policy as a step towards achieving that goal?

The biggest question is how much of public opinion does a coalition that includes the International Socialist Organization really represent?