Carrol Cox wrote:
The ruling class as a whole, as ruling, is perhaps like Althusser's conception of economic causation: that last lonely instance which never comes? Or perhaps it only emerges when its class rule becomes serioulsy threatened.<
it's a class "in itself," which shows up "for itself" only rarely. I think that when its class rule is threatened, it's more likely to hire some goons (such as Mussolini's boys) to do the job.
On "divisions within capital," that conception historically has been the
core of class collaborationist policies on the part of socialists or would-be socialists. Back in 1989 or so, drunk on their new-found pleasures in electoral politics, LRS decided that Daley represented the "progressive wing" of the bourgeosie. A year or two later LRS dissolved.< I don't know the LRS or even what its initials stand for (League for Revolutionary Socialism?), but the existence of competing capitals -- and thus competing factions of the capitalist class -- does not have to be interpreted in that way. If I remember correctly, some old Hairy German guy thought that there were divisions in the capitalist class. -- Jim Devine / "In economics, the majority is always wrong." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
