Yeah but they had some fucking stirdy-spined communists to be fair. British communists are beyond impotent. one even wonders if some kind of ethnic anti-communist characteristic can be ascribed to the English. maybe the only instance in which biological racial prejudice is acceptable?
Going by Doris Lessing's account, English Communism was dominated by the posh, who studiously faked flat vowels but in other respects were not in the least bit interested in their own abolition. I think the English are the furthest advanced of all nations in terms of making class so ingrained and cross-generationally transmitted it
feels biological. If we were the subjects of a sci-fi story, it would be "the Uppers have instilled in the Lowers an instinctive deference, of which the Lowers are not even consciously aware...even as they protest the dominance of the Uppers, and complain about their unjust prerogative, they cannot fully imagine a world without Uppers or a world in which Uppers are not, by birthright, finally in charge. The leaders of the most militant anti-Upper factions within the Lowers are all Uppers themselves, who mask the fact lightly to preserve appearances, while fully exploiting the instinctual deference shown to them by the Lowers among their ranks"