>I'm not sure that the existence of the ruling class
>requires agreement on common interests (much less
>being right about them), as opposed to, e.g., common
>culture, solidarity, broadly shared values, simialr
>positions wrt to productivea ssets, and the like.,
>After all, the pre-WWI ruling class had no clue and
>fairly little agreement aboyr what was in their common
>interests, but surely constituted a class.
The pre-WW I ruling class agitated to created the Federal Reserve. It was maybe their formative experience.
Doug