Harry Braverman: Marx in the Modern World (1958)
the standard of life of the working class has consequently been raised and is for long periods regularized. It is well above that of the classes it continues to supplant. The transformation of impoverished farmers into wage workers is no longer taken as prima facie evidence of immiseration.
The brutalizing process by which the working class was formed has receded into history. Thus the class structure which Marx described with bitter intensity in his own day exists today in greatly altered conditions, and no attempt at presenting the general law of capitalist accumulation in traditional Marxist rhetoric can get across to the average person, who is, in a way, the best judge of the matter.
HARRY KNOWS BETTER THAN MARX
The economist Fritz Steinberg has calculated that where, when Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto, only 10 percent of the world’s population lived directly under the capitalist system, by 1914 this had increased to 30 percent.
Imagine if capitalism had been compelled to keep increasing its investments and re-employing slack labor within that same 10 percent of the world!
It would have been impossible. But, since 1914, not only hasn’t the capitalist 30 percent grown, it has even shrunk a bit, and, on top of that, 35 percent of the earth’s population has been permanently taken out of the orbit of capitalist possibilities.
HARRY KNOWS HIS STATE-CAPITALISM FROM HIS MONOPOLY COMMUNISM!
Harry Braverman: Automation - Promise and Menace (1955)
DEFEND THE DEFORMED WORKERS STATES OF KGB RUSSIA AND CHINA!
TO THE DEATH!
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