Whoever said class identities were fixed in the UK? I think you'll find the British people on this thread stating that they are complicated not that they are unchanging; class mobility was the great safety valve of Victorian society; it was one of the things which Marx and Engels got spectacularly wrong, and it was the principal reason that not only wasn't there a revolution in 1848, there never was one at all and it was left to Russia to lead the way (where there really wasn't the safety valve).
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Date: 2008-02-27 07:43 pm (UTC)Whoever said class identities were fixed in the UK? I think you'll find the British people on this thread stating that they are complicated not that they are unchanging; class mobility was the great safety valve of Victorian society; it was one of the things which Marx and Engels got spectacularly wrong, and it was the principal reason that not only wasn't there a revolution in 1848, there never was one at all and it was left to Russia to lead the way (where there really wasn't the safety valve).