They still do. Why do you think they spend so much time and effort swamping us with consumerism and propaganda and building false consciousness? Despite us being a labour aristocracy, it's here where the productive forces are most developed and the contradictions most apparent (we can feed and house everyone with ease, why are people houseless and hungry?).
If the US and Commonwealth go red, it's over for the Bourgeoisie.
Agreed, what he failed to see was that revolution would occur in the colonized world first and the labor aristocracy in the imperial core would be used as a counter-revolutionary force
They still do. Why do you think they spend so much time and effort swamping us with consumerism and propaganda and building false consciousness? Despite us being a labour aristocracy, it's here where the productive forces are most developed and the contradictions most apparent (we can feed and house everyone with ease, why are people houseless and hungry?).
If the US and Commonwealth go red, it's over for the Bourgeoisie.
Agreed, what he failed to see was that revolution would occur in the colonized world first and the labor aristocracy in the imperial core would be used as a counter-revolutionary force