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They promote labour organisation. Organisation and class consciousness Following Marx, we see the pure type of competitive capitalism as beginning to erode in the very process of coming into existence. It is actually a construct developed for analytical purposes. When workers organise and stage their first successful strike, the system is no longer a purely capitalist one. As the organisation of labour increases, the distribution of power in civil society changes. As a consequence the distribution of the means of consumption and the distribution of control changes.

Both Marx and Engels recognised that ethnic diversity and religiosity were barriers to the development of class consciousness, but they assumed that the forces of capitalist development would break down these barriers in the long run. Though they erred on the question of polarisation, they did point to some factors which have proved to be important in the growth of labour organisation. Everywhere capitalism has created the seed of its own destruction, 42 The Transition from Capitalism to Socialism its negation - the labour movement.

In corporate capitalism, control will be held by those who perform the global functions of capital. Very skilled labour may hold some job control. 2. Income distribution will be determined by supply and demand relationships within the market. Those individuals performing the global functions of capital will receive revenue in addition to wage and salary income, skilled workers will receive salary and wage income while unskilled workers will receive only wages, their subsistence. It is probably not necessary to emphasise that a departure from the basic conditions of pure capitalism, such as a decline in unemployment or the development of labour organisation, will result in at least some change in income distribution.