On Nov 13, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Michael Perelman wrote:
I don't think it is a subject that can be discussed with sweeping generalizations.
Which is probably the most serious problem of Mills' The Power Elite, which in many ways is a splendid book. There's very little in the way of examples or mechanisms. Though in principle I think he was right about a lot of things, he didn't make his case as well as he should have. And a problem with Yoshie's Marx + Mills is that Mills explicitly rejected the idea of a ruling class, especially one that reduced to the capitalist class. Marxists have criticized Mills for this. Bertell Ollman told me a few weeks ago that few Marxists have written about the ruling class because they think the matter is self-evident. But it's not. Doug
