10. 1. 12 <. 13. 14. 15. 16. 7. 19. 20. 21 1. 20 25. 26. g7 28. 29 the repression meted out to those who dare organise, see the ‘Tolpuddle Mar- tyrs’ case in H.A. Clegg et al., 4 History of British Trade Unions Since 1889, Vol. 1 (Oxford University Press, 1964) pp. 44-47. Cf. B. Pribicevic, The Shop Stewards’ Movemen: and Workers Control 1910— 1922 (Blackwell, 1959). Cf. T.L. Johnstone, Collective Bargaining in Sweden (Harvard University Press, 1962. N. Das, Experiments in Industrial Democracy (Asia Publishing House,1964) pp. 81—=84. For France and West Germany, see A. Sturmthal, Workers Councils Harvard University Press, 1964). Ibid., p. 36. Ibid., p. 44 Ibid., p. 41 It may be true, as is always claimed by economists; that monopoly leads to a slackening of efficiency; but this is at the micro-level only, the over-all results are for the firm to acquire numerous economies and methods of control that make the bargaining power of capital vis-a-vis labour much stronger. Sturmthal, op. cit, p. 52 Johnstone op. cit., p. 216 Ibid., p. 219. For an extensive elaboration of these postulates see R.W. Cox ‘Workers' Par- ticipation in Management: A Fruitful Field of Inquiry’ and K.F. Walker and L. de Bellecombe. The Concept and Its Implementations’ in Bulletin No. 2 of the International Institute for Labour Studies. As if it is the calling of labour commodity that determines whether it is a commodity or not! For Marx and Lenin, Labour Power in a definite socio- economic function is a commodity. So central is this fact that Lenin actually defined capitalism itself as ‘commodity production at its highest stage when labour power itself becomes a commodity’, [V.I. Lenin, Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1965). p72]. Cf. Pribicevic, op. cil. Ibid. mp. 128, (empasis added) Quoted in |. Deutcher, Soviet Trade Unions (Royal Institute of Internal Affairs) V.1 Lenin. Selected Works, vol. 1 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1967). P. 191 (emphasis added). Ibid., p. 193 For an enlightening debate on whether capitalism has changed or not, see S. Tsuru (ed.) Has Capitalism Changed? (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1961). S Landau. ‘Socialist Democracy in Cuba: An Interview with Fidel Castro’ in Socialist Revolution, March/April 1970. p. 134. Collected Works, Vol. 28 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1962) p. 139. F. Engels, ‘The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the Suate’ in K. Marx and F. Engels, Selected Works Vol. 2 (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962), p. 322. K. Marx and F. Engels, ‘Manifesto of the Communist Party’ in Ibid., Vol. |1, p.144. K. Marx and F. Engels, The Germany Ideology; (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1968), p. 68 (emphasis in original). 225