On Nov 13, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Bill Quimby wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
But don't be silly. The makeup of the American ruling class is not
self-evident.
I take it then that you do believe that there is such an entity
as "the ruling class"?
I do think there's often a ruling class, but my working assumption -
which I'm not wedded to - is that we don't have a coherent one in the
U.S. right now. The old WASP elite, which both Domhoff and Mills held
to be the core of our elite/ruling class - operating through
foundations and entities like the Council on Foreign Relations - has
rotted away, and I don't think anything has taken its place.
I'm going to post a talk on this that I gave at the Rethinking
Marxism conference a couple of weeks ago to my website; I'll be sure
to announce this momentous event to PEN-L.
Doug
