In the mid-twentieth century, there is no such thing as a world proletariat. If one supports the party of the Russian proletariat, one is against that of the American proletariat, unless one regards the few thousand Communists, the Negro or Mexican sub-proletariats, as the representatives of the American working class. If one supports the Communist- dominated French trade unions, one is against the German trade unions which are almost unanimously anti-Communist. If one bases oneself on the votes of the majority, one would have had to be Socialist in France in the ’thirties and Communist in the
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