On 2012-01-06, at 8:14 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> Marv: "I'm surprised I have to keep repeating that the European
> working class is under as fierce an assault as the US working class,
> irrespective of their past history."
>
> [WS:] I do not think that anyone here disputes this. But the point
> is that they have a long way to go before they are degraded to the US
> level - and it is not certain that the process of degrading will
> continue unchallenged.
This narrows the differences.
On 2012-01-06, at 7:45 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote:
> Somebody: Wait a second - if European workers were really withering under sustained attack from the bosses like their American counterparts you would not see such continued low levels of inequality..for some bland generalities and meta-narratives are more interesting than hard data. "Workers are under attack" - I just wrote the headline for Marxist newspapers for the next 1000 years.
This widens them.