Workers' Herald
Organ of the Revolutionary Political Organization (M-L)
October, 1983
Vol. 4, No. 2
By Mark Evans, Roosevelt Washington, Jr., Rosie O'Connell
For the Central Committee
Who are the monopoly bourgeoisie?
The political power of the monopoly bourgeoisie
The liberal and fascist wings of the monopoly bourgeoisie
Capitalists of the oppressed nationalities
Political role of the bourgeoisie of the oppressed nations
Strategy of the proletariat against the capitalist class
Table A-1: Concentration of business sales
Table A-2: A partial list of monopoly bourgeois families
Table A-3: Top government officials and their connections with the monopoly bourgeoisie
Table A-4: Businesses of the oppressed nationalities
Table A-5: Top 100 Afro-American owned, non-financial businesses by number of employees
Table A-6: Afro-American owned financial businesses by assets
Table A-7: Top 100 Afro-American owned businesses, by type of business
II. The Proletariat
Productive and non-productive labor
The industrial proletariat
The agricultural proletariat
Proletarian clerical and technical workers
The labor aristocracy
The superexploitation of national minorities and women
Is the Anglo-American working class bribed?
The mobilization of the proletariat for revolution
Table B-1: Proletarian occupations
Table B-2: Median weekly wages of full time workers
The small proprietors
The struggle of the small proprietors against the capitalists
The petty bourgeois employees
Allies and enemies of the proletariat among the petty bourgeois employees
Table C-1: Distribution of income among "self-employed" retail merchants
Table C-2: Concentration of farm sales
Table C-3: Distribution of income among farm residents
Table C-4: Occupations of the petty bourgeois employees
Table C-5: Professional and technical employees
V. The Forces of Revolution and Counter-revolution
Table D-1: Income classes in the United States
Table D-2: Social classes in the United States
Chart D-3: Population by social class
Chart D-4: Ownership of the means of production by social class
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