Re: psychology & Marxism [was: Gambling for Empire]

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> Strange as it may seem, the Marxist tradition has not paid much
> attention to the ruling classes and power elites as they actually
> exist.

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."

Doug