[Marxism] If you want to identify the ruling class, you have to decide what is a social class.

[martin]

On Oct 31, 2008, at 10:57 PM, S. Artesian wrote:

> Clinton, as it was reported, stopped and stared at
> Rubin, and said, "You mean to tell me that the economic policy of the
> President depends on the approval of a handful of bond traders on Wall
> Street?"  Rubin told him that indeed it did.

But the bond traders were simply following policy decisions of their  
respective corporations. Humans do not constitute a 'ruling class'.  
They benefit from the rules that are generated by corporate policy,  
and the corporate policy is generated by a networking feature of  
corporate governance ie. overlap within boards of directors. It's a  
self-perpetuating, self-correcting system, using a meat network to  
communicate and correct.

martin