RALPH MILIBAND (On behalf of The Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize) PAUL Spotter (18 January) criticised your front page headline The crisis is a crisis of inequality, saying that it was a crisis of capitalist relations. Your editorial reply glibly stated that you thought it was fairly obvious that one amounted to the other. You are not only misleading but also wrong.
First, the IMG has many a time criticised the SWP for its It's the rich wot get the gravy', Lord Mayor's banquet, Rolls Royces, etc. approach. British capitalism cannot afford excessive' wage claims. Profits, not inequality, is the dynamo of the economic system.
Second, to whom is it obvious that inequality equals capitalism, other than revolutionaries and demagogues of 'this great movement of ours'? Our task is to explain the links between present consciousness and revolutionTHE LENGTH of letters printed will usually be kept down to 400 words in order to encourage as wide a range of contributions as possible. All letters may be cut at the Editor's discretion. Unsigned letters will not normally be published, although we will withhold real names from publication on request.
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