We now know that as the ink was drying on the Communist Manifesto, wages in Europe and the United States were beginning a 160-year-long rise, making workers part of the middle class, with cars, mortgages, pensions, and petty bourgeois concerns. Politicians today promise to create jobs – or more opportunities to be exploited by capital – not to take over the means of production.
现在我们知道，《共产党宣言》墨迹未干，而欧洲和美国的工资便开始了长达160年的增长，让工人跻身中产阶级，拥有汽车、按揭、退休金和小资产阶级情调。今天的政客承诺创造就业机会——或者更多的供资本剥削的机会——而不接收生产方式。