From: Paul Cockshott (clyder@GN.APC.ORG)
Date: Sun Mar 25 2007 - 17:32:48 EDT
Quoting Jurriaan Bendien <adsl675281@TISCALI.NL>: > Hi Paul, > > I don't doubt this at all, and in fact the same can be said for most rich > countries, especially places like Luxemburg but also Holland for example. > Almost everywhere and all times a section of the working population is > better paid and more privileged than the rest. This is not in dispute. What > is in dispute is (1) their class status and the influences on their > political orientation, (2) whether they are actually paid from profits made > overseas and (3) whether repatriated profits from overseas used to pay wages > are sufficient to sustain a substantial labor aristocracy by themselves. I think that all 3 are true of a substantial portion of those working in the Banking sector in London for example. > > Lenin sought to explain the lack of an anti-imperialist stance by workers in > industrialised countries by the fact that a section of the *working class* > benefited materially from their own country's imperialism, and were thus > unlikely to oppose it. It was a "share in the spoils" argument. But I could > argue in the same vein that *any* worker benefits from the job and income he > has, and is therefore unlikely to support anything that threatens his job or > income. > > Jurriaan > Paul Cockshott www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc reality.gn.apc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.
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