On Feb 10, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> ...the "ruling class" is not a unified group but rather a
> collection of groups sometimes cooperating and sometimes competing
> with each other...
This once was true, in the epoch of the bourgeois revolution. It was leading members of the ruling class--Talleyrand (LÉveque d'Autun) and Louis Philippe d'Orléans (head of the junior branch of the Bourbon dynasty) who initiated and led the French revolution in its earlier and middle stages and went so far as regicide. But things are different nowadays. Now the common interests of the ruling class so far exceed their divisions that the crimes of a Bush (for which a Louis Philippe would have invoked the guillotine) are given total amnesty (as well as the sincere tribute of imitation) by the head of the "rival" group, that loathsome liar Barack Obama.
Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64