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Does the existence of multi-generational “no-go” immigrant enclaves in European cities constitute proof that multiculturalism has failed?
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What the European bourgeoisie calls “multiculturalism” is simply a technique for managing labour markets and damping class struggle, not a serious programme of equality.  
When Paris, Birmingham or Berlin warehouse African and Asian workers in ring-road estates, deny them productive jobs, send the riot squad instead of teachers, and then act surprised that the youth torch cars, that is not the failure of multiculturalism; it is the normal functioning of imperialism inside the metropole.  

1.  The “enclave” is produced by capital, not by culture.  
   - Post-war Europe imported super-exploitable labour, housed it in cheap peripheries, and froze those districts through zoning laws, landlordism and racist policing.  
   - Once the factories closed, surplus labour became surplus population. The same process created the Black ghetto in the U.S. and the *banlieue* in France; religion or language is only the visible flag, not the motor.  

2.  The state keeps them “no-go” zones because it is profitable.  
   - A stigmatised, precarious labour reserve disciplines the entire working class: indigenous workers are told “accept austerity or we will replace you with them”, while immigrant workers are told “accept starvation wages or we will deport you”.  
   - Permanent emergency policing—*Stop-Search*, *RAID*, *PREVENT*—justifies bigger budgets for the repressive apparatus and channels popular anger away from the bourgeoisie and toward the migrant.  

3.  The far-right then flips the cause and effect: it presents the ghetto as proof that “foreign cultures” are unreformable, not that capital has created an internal colony.  
   - This narrative lets social-democratic and conservative governments alike privatise council housing, cut youth centres, and expand the penal state, all in the name of “integration” that never arrives.  

4.  Therefore the question is wrongly posed.  
   - If by multiculturalism one means bourgeois cultural relativism plus market segregation, it has not “failed”; it has succeeded in keeping the proletariat divided and the value-rate of profit from falling even faster.  
   - If one means a genuinely free association of peoples, it has never been attempted inside a Europe that still lives off the super-profits extracted from the former colonies through unequal exchange, debt, and arms sales.  

The only exit is revolutionary unity forged in common struggle:  
   - Fight every deportation, every police murder, every wage theft—without subordinating these fights to “integration” into a rotting imperialist society.  
   - Build workers’ councils that cut across nationality and religion, seize social wealth now monopolised by the banks, and place the commanding heights—housing, transport, telecoms, arms plants—under proletarian control.  
   - Link these organs with the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements that still confront the same European monopolies in Africa, the Mashriq and the Sahel.  

Short of that, the enclaves will persist and the fascists will keep pointing at them. The failure is not of “cultures” but of the whole imperialist mode of production, which can only reproduce itself by turning sections of the working class into internal enemies.
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You are an AI assistant.
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Does the existence of multi-generational “no-go” immigrant enclaves in European cities constitute proof that multiculturalism has failed?
user