“What Does Such a Race Want with High Wages?” – On Marxism

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>The Irishman is there to undertake all work that can be done by mere strength of hand and back — for wages that will purchase him potatoes. He needs only salt for condiment, he lodges to his mind in any pig-hutch or dog-hutch. The Saxon-man, if he cannot work on these terms, finds no work. The worst dwellings are good enough for them; their clothing causes them little trouble, so long as it holds together by a single thread; shoes they know not; their food consists of potatoes and potatoes only; whatever they earn beyond these needs they spend upon drink.

>What does such a race want with high wages? The majority of the families who live in cellars are almost everywhere of Irish origin. In short, the Irish have discovered the minimum of the necessities of life, and are now making the English workers acquainted with it. With such a competitor the English working-man has to struggle, with a competitor upon the lowest plane possible in a civilised country, who for this very reason requires less wages than any other. Nothing else is therefore possible than that the wages of English working-man should be forced down further and further in every branch in which the Irish compete with him." - Friedrich Engels describing the cause and effects of mass-immigration in 1845

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