From: Rakesh Bhandari (rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU)
Date: Sat Jan 03 2004 - 12:20:00 EST
> >Engels: > >'The truth is this: during the period of England's industrial >monopoly the English working class have, to a certain extent, shared >in the benefits of the monopoly. These benefits were unequally >parcelled out amongst them; the privileged minority pocketed most, >but even the great mass had, at least, a temporary share now and >then. and that is the reason why since the dying out of Owenism, >there has been no socialism in England...' (1892) No advanced capitalist country now enjoys an industrial monopoly. Hence, in terms of this argument the material basis for a labor aristocracy should no longer exist. Rakesh
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