The same article contains the following quotation from Engels (apparently from the preface to the new edition of The Condition of the Working Class) (p. xxiii of The Condition, 2nd edition):
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Engels on the working class and dominant position of England |
“During the period of England’s industrial monopoly the English working class have, to a certain extent, shared in the benefits of the monopoly. These benefits were very unequally parcelled out amongst them: the privileged minority pocketed most, but even the great mass had, at least a temporary share now and then. And that is the reason why, since the dying-out of Owenism, there has been no socialism in England. With the break- down of that [industrial] monopoly, the English working class will lose that privileged position; it will find itself generally—the privileged and leading minority not excepted—on a level with its fellow-workers abroad. And that is the reason why there will be socialism again in England”.[1] |
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Engels on English socialism |
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[1] See Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Moscow, 1962, Vol. II, pp. 405-19; Lenin quotes p. 417.
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