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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):

| 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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Notes:
[1] See Marx and Engels, Selected Works , Moscow, 1962, Vol. II, pp. 405-19; Lenin quotes p. 417.