Immiseration my eye

[Jacob Segal]

(snip)
>Hence increasing absolute wages accompany relative impoverishment. Marx
>never had an 'immiseration thesis' in the sense attributed him, that
>workers wages fell absolutely, or as measured in use-values, only
>relatively, or as measured in value, or against profits.
>
>--
>Jim heartfield

If so, why does Marx appear to write in the Manifesto that the declining
living standard is a spur to the revolution.  I hardly think workers would
so clearly know to revolt if their wages were going up in absolute terms,
no matter what their share of profits.

Jacob Segal