U.N.: Brain drain costs in India $2 billion a year

The brain drain from India in computer 
professionals alone amounts to 100,000 people per 
year, based on visa calculations for the United 
$tates since October 2000. The United Nations has 
also calculated that it cost India $15,000 to 
$20,000 to educate each. Whether Chinese students 
or Indian students or other Third World students 
or professionals, MIM has the same reaction. These 
people took the free education in their countries 
and then went to another country. 

Liberals we have 
spoken with call it "slavery" when we and Third 
World governments demand an end to the brain 
drain. Such Liberals only focus on the individual 
to such a degree that they often do not mention or 
are oblivious to the expense to society. The 
Western middle-classes are especially prone to 
thinking everyone "makes it on his or her own," 
not through exploiting or by being of use to 
exploiters. Caught in such individualist ideology 
since settler times in Amerika, the petty-
bourgeoisie instinctively sympathizes with the 
elites of Third World countries making their way 
toward "free" imperialist countries.

At the very 
least, such professionals should pay back to the 
exploited country the costs of their upbringing--
much more than the $15,000 or $20,000 spent on 
education. Even better, the brain-draining country 
should pay it back. The brain drain is one of many 
ways in which the imperialists exploit and super-
exploit the productive sector workers of the Third 
World. Those workers feed, clothe and shelter the 
white-collar workers as children and students. 
Then when these professionals take up their work, 
they go to the United $tates or other imperialist 
countries. These imperialist countries then 
receive the benefit of highly-trained workers with 
great "humyn capital," and they pay none of the 
costs. 

Under the dictatorship of the proletariat 
in Third World countries, borders should be closed 
to prevent imperialism from profiting free from 
the brain drain. Exceptions should only be made 
for those able to pay for their upbringing, either 
themselves or via their imperialist sponsors. When 
the dictatorship of the proletariat finally comes 
to the imperialist countries, professionals will 
work amongst the various countries according to 
their free will and the proletarian 
internationalist governments will make adjustments 
amongst themselves to make sure that no geographic 
location is suffering the adverse effects of 
individual professional freedom. Such freedom will 
be true freedom and not a cover for exploitation, 
because the imperialist system will have been 
destroyed already.

Note: Reuters in Metro (Boston edition), 11July 
2001, p. 05.