This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.
The working class has been turned into a consuming class - a situation has been created where people value their worth by what they can afford.
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
We are not making this demand for the sake of a principle, but in the interests of the proletarian class.
The premise is simple: One economy and one environment, and they're interdependent.
Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.
Good economic theory must give the people the chance to use their talents to build their own lives. We must get away from the traditional route where the rich will do the business and the poor will depend on private or public charity.
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