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

[Miles Jackson]

On 12/10/2010 8:51 AM, c b wrote:
> The whole thesis of both US parties as parties of big business would
> be nonsense if "big business" did not have a centralized and conscious
> way of running them. How is it that the DP and RP just happen to act
> so thoroughly as agents of big capital ?  It's more than "structural"
> ; and the "structure" did not self-organize. It was put into place by
> class conscious people.
>
> CB

This is exactly backwards: "class conscious people" are a product of 
capitalist social structure.  I will once again make the essential and 
throughly Marxist point that you cannot understand how capitalism works 
by analyzing the psychological characteristics of individuals.

Miles