Carrol Cox wrote:
P.S. A hypothesis which I won't defend or develop but which I think would be worthwhile exploring: A century from now historians (unless we have been bombed or warmed back to the stone age) looking back on the history of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries will see that the core of the ruling class consists of the rentier strata of the capitalist class.
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I always figured 'merchant strata'. Leigh
