On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Now I'm bothered by the matter of agency. Does the "U.S. Ruling Class"
> have a mind that appreciates this or that? A sector of it did sort of
> get together decades ago to tell LBJ not to run again, but only a
> sector. Individual capitalsits are highly class conscious, but only as
> individuals, not as members of a collective with a consciusness. And
> 'thinking aliike' as Domhoff explored it means that they support (as
> invidivduals) the same sorts of policies when those policies are
> preented by policy makers. But how does it actualize this appreciation
> you speak of?
Man, that's the $64 trillion question. My sense is that it used to be more coherent than it is now. I.e., the old Northeastern WASP establishment was a real social formation, that went to the same schools, and married out of the same population pool. Now that that's broken up, the whole thing is a total mess.