On this episode we do a deep dive on the labor aristocracy.

Timestamps:

• The first 12:20 seconds: definitions to make this episode more accessible.
• 12:20-18:25: On the fires in LA.
• 18:25- On the Labor Aristocracy
• 58:13: Common questions on the labor aristocracy

Resources:

The essay from FRSO that we are responding to:

Marxism-Leninism and the Theory of Settler-Colonialism in the United States, J. Sykes, December 2024

Engels to Kautsky, 1882

Lenin: “The International Socialist Congress in Stuttgart, 1907 

The 'Labor Aristocracy' in Context - Barbalet, 1987

Contemporary Imperialism and the Agrarian Question, Samir Amin, 2012

⁠Exploring Working-Class Consciousness: A Critique of the Theory of the 'Labour-Aristocracy" - Charles Post, 2010⁠

Lenin and the "Aristocracy of Labor" - Eric Hobsbawm, Monthly Review 2012

The Worker Elite - Bromma, 2014

The Proletariat of the Privileged Countries Participates in the Exploitation of the Third World - Arghiri Emmanuel, 2021

AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Worker: Solidarity or Sabotage? - Kim Scipes (On LibGen)