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Julio Pino said: ""How can Britain have the most class conscious proletariat in all of Europe and at the same time that proletariat has never shown any interest in revolutionary politics?"---Perry Anderson.
Ask anyone to name the most important historical work in Engl "How can Britain have the most class conscious proletariat in all of Europe and at the same time that proletariat has never shown any interest in revolutionary politics?"---Perry Anderson.
Ask anyone to name the most important historical work in English since the Second World War and until now (2002) and they will instantly cite THE MAKING OF THE ENGLISH WORKING CLASS. First, a confession: I never met E.P. Thompson but am a friend and former colleague of his arch-rival on the British left, Perry Anderson, who ousted E.P. from the editorship of NEW LEFT REVIEW back in the 1960s. (Thompson retaliated by writing THE POVERTY OF THEORY, a surreptitious attack on Perry.) Suppose the most important figure in the "making of the English working class" was not Karl Marx, Kier Hardy or Clement Attlee but John Wesley, founder of Methodism? Following the lead of Giorgi Lukacs, "there is not class without class consciousness", Thompson posits that the British proletariat first saw itself as a class when Wesley, and his brother Charles, went into the slums of London and other British cities to give verbal, periodical and even theological expression to the radical idea that workers were human beings with the right to eat, drink and house themselves. However, Wesley did not believe in working-class suffrage nor in doing away with class privileges or distinctions. Methodism, by terms and turns, awakened and narcotized the British working class, answering Anderson's question. Of course, this massive work does not reduce British working class consciousness to religion alone. The movement from cottage industry to factory, Britain's insular protection from Continental radical ideas (think of the French Revolution), and a very early distinction between skilled and unskilled labor rank high on the list of causes. Today (2022) the U.K. is facing the greatest economic crisis since the Depression (political crisis too) and still no proletarian alternative to Conservatives and Labourites is in sight. I pray someday someone does an equally insightful and beautifully written study on the making of the American working class. ...more"

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― Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism

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― Jean-Luc Godard

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