Another inveigh against the attempt to foster divisions between workers of the developed countries and those of the less developed, from 1969 - is at -> http://ml-review.ca/aml/BLAND/WBBSIZECLASS.html -> It is developed in an argument against the view of the then ‘Finsbury Communist Association: which argued much as John Smith does (as noted by Charles) that almost the whole of the metropolitan working classes were close to, or actual ‘labour aristocrats”. It is a view that is linked to the 'Three World’ theory as was sanctioned at one time by the Communist Party China. After some calculations, we wrote: "Since it is clearly impossible for the working class as a whole to gain materially from imperialist super-profits, how big is the "labour aristocracy" which could gain materially from distribution of this "bribe" of Pounds Sterling 37 million? If we assume that the minimum possible "bribe" likely to affect significantly the social and political outlook of a member of the working class is Pounds Sterling 50 a year, or just under Pounds Sterling l a week, it is clear that the maximum size of the British labour aristocracy which could benefit from imperialist super-profits is 740,000 out of a working class of 44 million.
Far from constituting, as the FCA hold: "the overwhelming majority of Britain's workers"; (p. 5), The labour aristocracy represents at most less than 1.7% of the British working class." Hari -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#43136): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/43136 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120882561/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
