Lenin on the aristocracy of labour

'Only the proletarian class, which maintains the whole of society, can bring about the social revolution. However, as a result of the extensive colonial policy, the European proletarian partly finds himself in a position when it is not his labour, but the labour of the practically enslaved natives in the colonies, that maintains the whole of society ... In certain countries this provides the material and economic basis for infecting the proletariat with colonial chauvinism. Of course, this may be only a temporary phenomenon, but the evil must nonetheless be clearly realised and its causes understood.'(Collected Works [CW], Vol 13, p77)

Considering the Brit bosses have five times the national GDP invested in exploiting workers abroad Lenin's critique takes on real flesh and blood.