[lbo-talk] "Ruling Class" as Agent?????

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Fri Dec 10 04:36:58 PST 2010


On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 11:14:55 -0600 "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes:
> Domhoff to the contrary, there is no machinery by which the "Ruling
> Class"
> can act as a single agent, "doing" this or "doing" that. The class
> (if it is
> a class at all) has no Central Committee, and there is no evidence,
> really,
> that any particular "act" represents the majority of that "class."
>

Flashback to the 1970s!

It looks like that Carrol is bringing us back to the old debates concerning strcuturalist versus instrumentalist views of the state: Poulantzas (who was a disciple of Althusser) versus, say, Ralph Milliband or, indeed, Domhoff. I, myself, think that I am inclined towards the take that Richard W. Miller took in his book, "Analyzing Marx", called for a synthesis of the structuralist and instrumentalist views of the state.

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