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

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> 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."

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