Coaxing small capitalists?
Andrew Northall (Letters, 24 March) takes exception to my Antidoto column (10 February) on the Communist Party of Britainâs concept of the âanti-monopoly allianceâ. One thing Andrew says is undoubtedly correct: âThe âanti-monopoly allianceâ is very much written into the DNA of the CPB and its programme, Britainâs Road to Socialismâ. Where we disagree is on whether or not this represents (in Andrewâs words) âa cross-class alliance that cannot by definition be anti-capitalist since it includes small capitalists.â Andrew claims that the term monopoly capitalism âsimply describes the nature of...