"Devine, James" wrote: > > > Even so, we have to recognize that even the most competent power elite can fall for > the trap of believing its own propaganda. This opens the way for being replaced by a > different ruling-class power elite -- or for a fundamental shift in class relations. >
There is also a sort of structural stupidity operating in any ruling class: some features of the world emerge from its historicity, but to acknowledge historicity is to acknowledge one's own doom, which is not good for morale. Specifically, for capitalists, they can't really recognize or allow for in their thinking that it is of the essence of capitalism continually to tear itself apart. (That is not a theory of inevitability: capitalism also continually rebuilds itself, or, as Mao said, if you don't hit it won't fall.) Carrol > Jim D. > >
