G. William Domhoff http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/
On 3/12/07, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
don't you man the "ruling elite," not the "ruling class"? how about G. William Domhoff? Tom Bottomore has a nice little book on _Elites and Society_, BTW. The original elite theories came from folks like Pareto and Mosca, who were pretty conservative. On 3/12/07, Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few months ago, when I told Bertell Ollman that I was working on a > book about the ruling class, which I described as a hybrid of C. > Wright Mills and Vanity Fair, Bertell looked pained, and asked, > "Mills? No Marx?" I said Marx would always be there, but he didn't > have much to say about the ruling class. I then asked him if there > were any Marxist writers on the r.c. he liked. He replied, "No. They > mostly think of it as self-evident." -- Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
