[PEN-L:6204] Re: Re: Senate Republican Policy Papers on Kosovo

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:36 PM 4/29/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Louis Proyect wrote:
>>  This is what they call a split in the ruling class.

Carrol writes:
>It certainly represents a sharp disagreement on a specific issue -- but
>I think it is worthwhile to reserve the label, "split in the ruling class,"
>for the kind of division which makes possible an actual alliance between
>the working class and some sector of the ruling class.

I don't see why we can't think about _degrees_ of splits within the ruling
class. There are always some splits, though usually they're minor. But
they're an important source of possibilities for the opposition, just like
the late competition between the US and the USSR.

Of course, splits within the ruling class -- i.e., competition amongst
capitals -- is also a source of economic crises, but that's another story.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/JDevine.html
Bombing DESTROYS human rights. US/NATO out of Serbia now!