<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bottomMargin=0 leftMargin=3 rightMargin=3 topMargin=0> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Friedrich Engels made essentially the same point long ago in a letter to the</DIV> <DIV>German-American socialist Friedrich Adolf Sorge written</DIV> <DIV>December 2, 1893:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>". . . immigration, which divides the workers into two groups: the native-born </DIV> <DIV>and the foreigners, and the latter into (1) the Irish, (2) the Germans, </DIV> <DIV>(3) the many small groups, each of which understands only itself: Czechs, </DIV> <DIV>Poles, Italians, Scandinavians, etc. And then the Negroes. To form a single </DIV> <DIV>party out of these requires quite unusually powerful incentives. Often there </DIV> <DIV>is a sudden violent élan, but the bourgeois need only wait passively and </DIV> <DIV>the dissimilar elements of the working class fall apart again. . ."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jim F.</DIV> <DIV>On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 13:55:07 +0000 "Justin Schwartz" <<A href="mailto:jkschw@hotmail.com">jkschw@hotmail.com</A>> writes:<BR>> ><BR>> >Justin Schwartz wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> >>>Mina Kumar wrote:<BR>> >>><BR>> >>>>Didn't everyone already know this!<BR>> >>><BR>> >>>It was never proved by economists before.<BR>> >>><BR>> >>>Doug<BR>> >><BR>> >>Not so. John Roemer has a paper on Divide and Conquer, Bell J. <BR>> Econ 1979.<BR>> ><BR>> >He's a Marxist of sorts - doesn't count.<BR>> ><BR>> >It was a joke, anyway.<BR>> ><BR>> >Doug<BR>> <BR>> Yes, I knew it was a joke, puleez, Doug! I thought I'd mention the <BR>> piece <BR>> anyway, it's good, very neoclassical of course. --jks<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> _________________________________________________________________<BR>> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <BR>> <A href="http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp">http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp</A><BR>> <BR>> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>