Re: dev’ts in world economy and foreign ownership
On May 27, 2007, at 10:03 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
I’ve toyed from time to time with the idea that the ruling class is
not a unitary entity.
Not now, it’s not, in the U.S. Nothing’s replaced the WASPs as a
coherent social entity, with a common worldview, social ties,
institutional affiliations, or a cuisine. Compare the editpages of
the NYT & WSJ as mouthpieces for elite thinking (or transmission
belts from the upper to upper-middle levels). The right-wing
ascendancy of the late 1970s/early 1980s looks to have shot its wad,
and there’s no successor in the wings.
Doug