Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Willy Greenfields [mailto:filthydirtyunwashed at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 2:46 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Bohemian Grove
>
>
>
> I ask, is it the particular phrasing Joe W. uses or is
> it the general idea that power perpetuates and
> amplifies itself across private elitist networks that
> people object to? It seems a bit much to deride
> concern over organizations like this (and to invoke
> Gregor Strasser) when the organization's own members
> are discussing "Mandalay effects" and acknowledging
> that "the contacts are amazing."
>
The particular phrasing. More Birch Society and Buchanan (and the Strassers) than C. Wright Mills, G. William Domhoff, or Holly Sklar (or Doug Henwood). It is exactly the distinction between power structure research into elite cohorts and policy networking v. oversimplified and individualized conspiracism that I am exploring. Domhoff and Sklar have also written or spoken out about this distinction, and I was once on a scholarly conference panel discussing the problem and the distinction with both of them.
-Chip Berlet