A Conceptual History of the Labour Aristocracy: A Critical Review

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1 Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich. 1965. Letter from Engels to Marx, Manchester, 7 October 1858. In. Selected Correspondence. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 110.

2 Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich. 1965. Letter from Engels to Kautsky, London, 12 September 1882. In Selected Correspondence. Moscow: Progress Publishers.

3 Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich. 1962. Selected Works. Vol II. Moscow: Progress Publishers. 406–19.

4 Lenin, V. 1917. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. In Lenin, V. 1963. Selected Works. Vol 1. Moscow: Progress Publishers.

5 Lenin, V. 1916. Imperialism and the Split in Socialism. In Lenin, V. 1964. Lenin Collected Works. Vol 23. Moscow: Progress Publishers.

6 Lenin, V. 1916. Imperialism and the Split in Socialism. In Lenin, V. 1964. Lenin Collected Works. Vol 23. Progress Publishers: Moscow. 115.

7 Ibid.

8 Post, Charles. 2018. “The Myth of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 1.” Available from: https://www.solidarity-us.org/node/128

9 Lenin 1916, Op. cit., 116.

10 Ibid.

11 Foster, John. 1976. “British Imperialism and the Labour Aristocracy.” In Jeffrey Skelley. Editor. The General Strike 1926. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 3–58.

12 Biel, Robert. 2015. Eurocentrism and the Communist Movement. Kersplebedeb: Montreal, 7.

13 The Communist International. 1926. “ECCI Manifesto on the General Strike in Britain.” Imprekorr. Vol 6, Iss 7, 1111.

14 Bukharin, Nikolai. 1930. Imperialism and World Economy. London: Martin Lawrence Limited, 167.

15 Emmanuel, Arghiri. 1972. Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade. Monthly Review Press: New York, 180.

16 Emmanuel, Arghiri. 1974. “Myths of Development versus Myths of Underdevelopment.” New Left Review. May/June, 79.

17 Bettelheim, Charles. 1975. “Appendix One: Theoretical Comments.” In, Emmanuel, Arghiri. 1975. Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade. London: New Left Books, 306.

18 Hoxha, Enver. Eurocommunism is Anti-Communism. Tirana: 8 Nëntori Publishing House. 1980, 82–83.

19 Myrdal, Gunnar. 1964. An International Economy: Problems and Prospects, 2nd ed. New York: Harper & Row

20 Brolin, John. 2007. The Bias of the World: Theories of Unequal Exchange in History. Human Ecology Division, Lund University, 176.

21 Myrdal, op cit., 1967, 97.

22 Allen, Ted. 1967. “Can White Workers Radicals Be Radicalized?” In Carl Davidson. Editor. Revolutionary Youth and the New Working Class. Morrisville, NC: Lulu Press, Inc. 2011, 184.

23 Ibid.

24 Žižek, Slavoj. 2012. “The revolt of the salaried bourgeoisie”, London Review of Books, 34, 2, 26 January. Cf. Lewis, Dustin. 2016. “Third Worldism and Marxism.” In Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope. Editors. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 955–67, 960.

25 Cope, Zak. 2012. Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism. Montreal: Kersplebedeb.

26 Baran, Paul and Paul M. Sweezy. 1966. Monopoly Capital. New York: Monthly Review Press, 178, n1.

27 Cope, Zak. 2013. “Global Wage Scaling and Left Ideology: A Critique of Charlie Post on the ‘Labor Aristocracy’.” Research in Political Economy, 28, 100.

28 Amin, Samir. 2000. Capitalism in the Age of Globalization: The Management of Contemporary Society. London: Zed Books, 4–5.

29 Harvey, David. 2006. The Limits to Capital. London: Verso, 442.

30 Smith, John. 2012. “The GDP Illusion: Value Added versus Value Captured.” Monthly Review, Volume 64, Issue 3, July–August.

31 Lauesen, Torkil and Zak Cope. 2015. Imperialism and the Transformation of Values into Prices. Monthly Review, Volume 67, Issue 3, July–August, 62.

32 Nichols, Theo. Ed. 1980. Capital and Labour: Studies in the Capitalist Labour Process. London: Athlone Press, 136 n7.

33 Breman, Jan. 1976. “A Dualistic Labour System? A Critique of the ‘Informal Sector’ Concept: III: Labour Force and Class Formation.” Economic and Political Weekly. 11 no. 50, 1939–1944.

34 Waterman, Peter. (1975). “The ‘Labour Aristocracy’ in Africa: Introduction to a Debate.” Development and Change. 6, no. 3.

35 Davis, Charles. 1986. “The Labor Aristocracy Thesis and the Political Quiescence of Labor in Venezuela and Mexico.” Social Science Quarterly. 67, no. 2.

36 Kerswell, T. 2015. “Labor Divided.” Monthly Review. 65, no. 7.

37 Bromma. 2014. The Worker Elite: Notes on the “Labor Aristocracy”. Montreal: Kersplebedeb. 74, 86

38 Kerswell, Timothy. 2011. The Global Division of Labor and the Division in Global Labour. PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology.

39 Kerswell, Timothy and Pratap, Surendra. 2015. “Informality in Automobile Chains in India.” WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 18 no.4.

40 Bromma, op. cit., 19.

41 Veblen, Thorstein. 1899. The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions. London: MacMillan.