>And are the workers less in chains today than they were when this
>rhetoric was first uttered?
Yeah, actually they are, in the First World at least. It was absolutely hellish to be a prole in 1848. It's not a walk in the woods today, but it's not hellish (in the First World - it can be real hellish in the Third). And the Marxist movement had no small amount to do with that.
Doug