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[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Maybe I'm just obsessing over terms, objecting to mixing up 
>capitalists and members of a ruling class and the merely rich. But 
>how is capitalist power exercised? Jackie O had nothing to do with 
>determining the conditions of social labor or the deployment of US 
>imperial power abroad. Senior executives, financiers, and helpful 
>intellectuals do.
>
>Doug

I think that the grouping that you are talking about is what C. 
Wright Mills calls "the power elite."  It is indeed the power elite 
who make decisions on "the deployment of US imperial power abroad," 
but is it the power elite who determine "the conditions of social 
labor"?
-- 
Yoshie

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