[lbo-talk] The Political Nullity of the American Workers

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Replace the "great Liberal Party" by the Democratic Party, and what
Engels said about the English workers very much applies to the
American workers (probably most workers of the North, too, though
workers' political nullity is the most dangerous here in the USA):

     Participation in the domination of the world market

     was and is the basis of the political nullity of the

     English workers. The tail of the bourgeoisie in the

     economic exploitation of this monopoly but nevertheless

     sharing in its advantages, politically they are naturally

     the tail of the "great Liberal Party," which for its part pays

     them small attentions, recognises trade unions and

     strikes as legitimate factors, has relinquished the fight

     for an unlimited working day and has given the mass

     of better placed workers the vote.  ("Engels to August

     Bebel, in Borsdorf near Leipzig," Eastbourne,

     30 August, 1883,
<http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/letters/83_08_30.htm>)

-- 
Yoshie