". . . immigration, which divides the workers into two groups: the native-born and the foreigners, and the latter into (1) the Irish, (2) the Germans, (3) the many small groups, each of which understands only itself: Czechs,
Poles, Italians, Scandinavians, etc. And then the Negroes. To form a single party out of these requires quite unusually powerful incentives. Often there is a sudden violent élan, but the bourgeois need only wait passively and the dissimilar elements of the working class fall apart again. . ."
Jim F.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:55:07 +0000 "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
writes:
> >
> >Justin Schwartz wrote:
> >
> >>>Mina Kumar wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Didn't everyone already know this!
> >>>
> >>>It was never proved by economists before.
> >>>
> >>>Doug
> >>
> >>Not so. John Roemer has a paper on Divide and Conquer, Bell J.
> Econ 1979.
> >
> >He's a Marxist of sorts - doesn't count.
> >
> >It was a joke, anyway.
> >
> >Doug
>
> Yes, I knew it was a joke, puleez, Doug! I thought I'd mention the
> piece
> anyway, it's good, very neoclassical of course. --jks
>
>
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