[lbo-talk] ruling class

[tfast]

Or more positively stated they were so successful about locking in the 
structural conditions to secure their reproduction they are now 
concentrating on accumulating capital.

Travis

Doug Henwood wrote:


>
> No, the merely rich, the mere business class care about accumulating 
> capital. To be a proper ruling class, it has to be conscious of itself 
> as such. The people who agitated for the Federal Reserve and who 
> designed the post-WW II Bretton Woods architecture were a proper 
> ruling class. So were the people who led the crackdown of the 1970s 
> that culminated in Volcker and Reagan. I'm not sure we have one now - 
> and in part because they're too focused on accumulating capital to 
> worry about the conditions of their own reproduction.
>
> Doug
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