[lbo-talk] Developments in the world economy and the concept offoreign ownership

[Doug Henwood]

On May 27, 2007, at 10:34 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> A lot of politicians, especially those who capture the highest
> offices, are themselves members of the ruling class, first of all.

Jimmy Carter? Richard Nixon? Bill Clinton? They weren't members of  
the ruling class by social or institutional ties that preceded their  
attainment of office.


> If the ruling class are
> pacific, why do they exclude pacifists?

I explicitly said that the ruling class isn't pacific. And you've yet  
to demonstrate why the examples I gave - e.g., City opposition to  
entry into WW I, New York capitalists' desire to appease the South in  
the 1850s, they mysterious lack of evidence of oil industry agitation  
for the invasion of Iraq - aren't problems to be explained.

Doug