There's a critical path here how wide may vary over any one course and between
Different national courses
But the split Germany experiment suggests neither is as basic
as material improvement in particular relative material improvement
Modern class self- consciousness is in part a product of material stagnation
Of the job class and ...and it's relative falling behind the upper rungs
Of it's own exploiter class
National consciousness obviously comes from cross national comparisons of peer nations
Germany nicely intensified the national consciousness of east Germans by making their national rival the other " 3/4's " of their own nation