profit from the labours of the many. Some exploit, and the rest of us are exploited.
Inequality is basic is capitalism. That inequality occurs in social existence too, and not by acident. For example, the inequality of women, and of lesbians and gay men, is rooted in the privileged position occupied by the patriarchal (male-dominated) family system.
Discrimination and oppression designed to keep us in our places also serves to reproduce a divided and docile workforce, as likely to blame fellow workers, "Europe", or those of anomner race tor our woes as to pın the blame where it really lies.
An economic system which seeks to achieve equality, however, is also a society where these oppressions have no place.
Clause IV, certainly, does not in itself address these questions. But it does create a framework in which the struggle for equality for ALL sections of society has its rightful and logical place.
The modernisers will seek to It should start by promoting the wide range of equality policies it already has. It should throw its support behind the struggles against racism, against sexism, for lesbian and gay and disabled rights.
But far from representing a different approach from the vision of Clause IV, this really represents the same fundamentals.
If we mean to win equality for all who are denied it in capitalist society, it can only be as part of the struggle to win "the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of common ownership" for (and by) the workers.