Where was the working class control of production in the Kruschev’s USSR or Mao’s China?
“Last time I checked most people in the U.S. work in service industries.” They are still workers. Read Marx. “Marx came from a priviliged middle class background, and wrote Capital while living off money sent to him by his mate Engels, who was a full-blown capitalist.” This is an excuse used by every petit-bourgeois radical (who of course see themselves as modern day Marx or Lenins) when confronted with this question. Marx lived his entire life in poverty. He gave up his privileged background. He was also a worker (writing for newspapers and publishers) for a large part of his life. Engels was a clerk in his father’s factory until he quit. Later he lived from money that came off his stocks. Let’s see what he said: “It is an unavoidable phenomenon, well established in the course of development, that people from the ruling class also join the proletariat and supply it with educated elements. This we have already clearly stated in the Manifesto. Here, however, two remarks are to be made:
