>The working class and masses as the ruling class is what liberalism,
>obviously ,misses in the advance in thinking about democracy and its
>practice. Etc., etc.
The working class cannot be the ruling class, the idea is preposterous. Who would they rule over? Only themselves? In which case they wouldn't constitute a "class" in the sense of a separate section. Over the capitalist class? That too is illogical, why would a working class choose to retain a class of capitalists as domestic pets when they have the power to simply appropriate the means of production from them.
Not to mention the danger that, as is their nature, the supposedly tamed capitalists would go feral at the slightest opportunity and rip out the throats of their masters.
This notion of the working class as a ruling class is entirely absurd. Always has been, always will be. We all know that dictatorship of the proletariat can only mean the creation of a new ruling class.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas