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[Aug. 26th, 2007|03:33 pm] |
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| | "Churake Dil mera" by Alka Yagnik & Kumar Sanu | ] |
"We have already seen how the proletariat was called into existence by the introduction of machinery. The rapid extension of manufacture demanded hands, wages rose, and troops of workmen migrated from the agricultural districts to the towns. Population multiplied enormously, and nearly all the increase took place in the proletariat. Further, Ireland had entered upon an orderly development only since the beginning of the eighteenth century. There, too, the population, more than decimated by English cruelty in earlier disturbances, now rapidly multiplied, especially after the advance in manufacture began to draw masses of Irishmen towards England. Thus arose the great manufacturing and commercial cities of the British Empire, in which at least three-fourths of the population belong to the working-class, while the lower middle-class consists only of small shop-keepers, and very very few handicraftsmen. For, though the rising manufacture first attained importance by transforming tools into machines, work-rooms into factories, and consequently, the toiling lower middle-class into the toiling proletariat, and the former large merchants into manufacturers, though the lower middle-class was thus early crushed out, and the population reduced to the two opposing elements, workers and capitalists, this happened outside of the domain of manufacture proper, in the province of handicraft and retail trade as well. In the place of the former masters and apprentices, came great capitalists and working-men who had no prospect of rising above their class. Hand-work was carried on after the fashion of factory work, the division of labour was strictly applied, and small employers who could not compete with great establishments were forced down into the proletariat. At the same time the destruction of the former organisation of hand-work, and the disappearance of the lower middle-class deprived the workingman of all possibility of rising into the middle-class himself. Hitherto he had always had the prospect of establishing himself somewhere as master artificer, perhaps employing journeymen and apprentices; but now, when master artificers were crowded out by manufacturers, when large capital had become necessary for carrying on work independently, the working-class became, for the first time, an integral, permanent class of the population, whereas it had formerly often been merely a transition leading to the bourgeoisie. Now, he who was born to toil had no other prospect than that of remaining a toiler all his life. Now, for the first time, therefore, the proletariat was in a position to undertake an independent movement." |
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I'm the most resentful person I know :D
How are you?
There are 2 million Negroes around me :D
I'm listening to "One of Us" by ABBA. Is he one of us?
Fairly bizarre. I did read in the Daily Express that we have had a slug infestation in Summer, but it could have just been a reference to Kosovans that went over my head.
No, Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
Do you kill them? I hope you don't kill them. I'm pro-life x.
Which part of Croydon is your ends? I used to reside in North Kensington, the most squalid of all the Kensingtons. And now home to David Cameron, MP.
Harry is really beginning to fuck me off. He's so old news. Tell me more about my new crush, the ever dashing Andre.
No, it would be rather hypocritical of me to do so.
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Cod ♥ I would rather not, but my diet is severely messed up since my father left etc.
Hmm, smoking is a little impotency to me. But I suppose he's young and virile, anyway. Do you know if he's prone to nocturnal emissions?
Well done :D What is your desired height?
He's fucking dreamy, guh. We spent the day together yesterday. And on turning my phone on an hour ago I was pleased and surprised to read "you have 6 missed calls from Chris". I'm playing hard to get x.
A 6'4" nigga? But you probably intimidate people enough already. I wish you all the luck in the world.
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rofl.
Well, sort of. We have sex quite regularly. He messes up my head ;( His name is Christopher ♥ And actually looks no less Aryan than I do. That is to say he is not Swarthy.
I don't mind "Two And A Half Men" - especially when it used to follow "Joey"
Well that's no excuse for having long fingernails.
I watch regularly Crimewatch UK, repeats of Friends and The Simpsons, Big Brother, Newsnight (sometimes, I like the theme music, mainly), Football Focus (esp when Lawro's on), Brothers and Sisters (ugh), Will & Grace (I know), and Hollyoaks. Mainstream sh*t, mostly, my Nigger, I ain't no backpacker. And yourself?
Rangers - dirty Prods affiliated 2 the Paisleys.
I missed it, sadly.
She enjoys reading, yes. I think I might buy her a bookshop if ever I come into a lot of money. What would you like me to buy you, in that event?
What would you like to buy me, in that event, if anything? I'd like a few books and a few films, I think.
If I ever got very rich, then I'd like to buy you every Shilpa Shetty film in existence, but I doubt that you'd enjoy that very much. What would you like, in that not so unlikely event? | |
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