How to Prevent Revolutions
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The Limits of Capitalism
The emergence of a middle class has rendered possible the mental and instinctual coordination of the laboring classes. The majority of organized labor shares the stabilizing counter revolutionary needs of the middle classes as evidenced by their emotional revulsion against the nonconformist intelligentsia. Where the consumer gap is still wide, where the capitalist culture has not yet reached into every house or hut, the system of stabilizing needs has its limit. That's where there must be this huge class difference.
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