Labor aristocracy

Imperialist competition
Frederick Engels first introduced the notion of the “labor aristocracy” in a number of letters to Marx stretching from the late 1850s through the late 1880s. (2) Engels was grappling with the growing conservatism of the organized sectors of the British working class. { Jonathan Strauss, in Engels and the theory of the Labor Aristocracy, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal, 25 (January–June 2004) [www.desp.org. au/links/bank/ issue25/Strauss.htm], presents a useful summary of Engel’s writings. Via Marxists.org.]
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