Labor bureaucrats steered English unionism away from class struggle into nationalism

Evidence

It would reappear in the mid-1860s, but by then what would become the general labor union movement (replacing an earlier and explicit consciousness of a class struggle for political power) had so progressed as to be so much under the sway of labor bureaucrats that not even the direct intervention of Marx was sufficient to more than briefly deflect English working-class consciousness from nationalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 239

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Britain’s strong labor organization bought working-class influence in war government. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1653