From: Louise <94913099-AT-mmu.ac.uk>
Date:          Thu, 23 Nov 1995 13:35:55 GMT
Subject:       Re: Mid.Class2


Mike,

        sorry I've taken a while to reply, I've been busy. I once 
heard (only by word of mouth, though) that offically speaking the 
working class was now smaller than the middle class; with the classes 
defined by occupation, so that's where I got the idea of a smaller 
working class. I am also aware that in the last century there were 
large numbers of peasants which isn't so prvalent today.
    Now you said that the only wages could really improve was to get 
rid of the pool of cheap unemployed labour, i.e full employment. You 
said that the aim for full employment was communismin another name, 
but surely every political economists aim, no matter how right-wing, 
is for full employment. What is disagreed upon is how this can be 
achieved.
        One thing has crossed my mind since I worte last week and 
that is that Marx said a society had to have been industrialised 
before it can embark on the road to communism, also that communism 
had to be a global thing. That must therefore mean that in accordance 
with marx we'er at least 100 years away from a global revolution 
because all the developing countries have to idustrialise (which 
looks quite unlikly in the more unstable ones, who's going to want to 
invest in those?) the the workers have to become discontented LTHEN 
they can have a go at revoultion. So whatever happens, it's not in my 
life time.

Louise.


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