ruling class (was: Farewell to Oskar)

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 05:56 PM 3/17/99 -0500, Doug wrote:
>There's an article in the spring Science & Society - the Frances Bolton
>issue - by Roger Burbach and William Robinson arguing that nation-states
>are passe and a global ruling class is forming itself.

Does this mean that the ruling classes did not have international/global
ambitions before, or that they are more united now than before, or that
they have more power now than before?

Wojtek