reminds me of Joan Robinson’s Essay on Marxian Economics published in 1942.
She noted that when the communist manifesto was published, its battle cry ‘Rise up ye workers, rise up for you have nothing to lose but your chains’ would have had some currency in 1848.
Alas by 1942, Robinson suggested that this battle cry would have to be amended to ‘Rise up ye workers, rise up for you have nothing to lose but your suburban home and your motor car.’ The forces of history can be cruel.
what would be the the battle cry be now: 'Rise up ye workers, rise up for you have nothing to lose but your iPad and your air miles'?
