>But if Marx
>himself did not campaign for the 10 Hour Bill he certainly writes as if the
>English working classes did!
There is no actual evidence for working class involvement. In Marx's defence it can be said that all this happened before he settled in Britain. His speech was written nearly 20 years later, probably based on the unreliable testimony of trade union leaders.
>And the passage I have already quoted make clear his argument about "social
>production controlled by social foresight" forming the political economy of
>the working class.
This quoted argument is true but it does not support your argument about reform.
>Lew's
> readings are eccentric.
This, coming from someone who has posted material from an organisation which used to be called the Communist Party of Great Britain, then became so ashamed of what it stood for that it changed its name to "Democratic Left". Before we had a Stalinist reading of Marx, now we get a Blairite interpretation. -- Lew