On 8/7/06, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carrol writes: > It is NOT a neocon thesis; the invasion of Iraq was and is supported by > the totality of leading forces in the u.s. ... ============================== Ok, I'll proceed on the assumption of your deeply mistaken view (and wishful one, in order to bash "US leftists") that there was unanimity within the US ruling class about a land invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Marvin, how did you leap from "the totality of leading forces in the u.s." to "unanimity within the US ruling class"? there was clearly NOT unanimity amongst the ruling classes. But the "leading forces" seems to refer to those in governmental power, what C. Wright Mills called the "power elite" rather than Karl Marx's "ruling classes." (There is competition between the in-power elite and the out-of-power elites within the capitalist class.) What CC seemed to be saying is that the entire dominant coalition in US politics favored the war, so it wasn't simply a neocon adventure. -- Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in business schools, it's the exact opposite." --- Paul Dirac [edited]
