{"id":13077,"date":"2015-10-06T07:16:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13077"},"modified":"2015-10-06T07:16:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T12:16:06","slug":"yes-there-is-an-imperialist-ruling-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13077","title":{"rendered":"Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between. A sizeable cadre of class- and system-conscious deep-state and imperial planners from the heights of concentrated private and governmental power join together to shape the outlines of much of recent history. Along with professional class \u201cexperts\u201d agreeable to their basic aims, they do so in accord with their shared interests in the endless upward accumulation of wealth and power. They serve the profits system that is still headquartered primarily in the United States even as it develops ever more and varied outposts across a globalizing world.<\/p>\n

They exercise vastly disproportionate influence on the course of events and policy largely behind the scenes, in the darkly deceptive name of democracy. But it isn\u2019t about conspiracy. The planners in question are numerous. Their names, activities, and backgrounds and the record of their influence are all open to investigation by those with the time, skill, energy, and willingness to make the connections.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about class power and the unelected and interrelated dictatorships of money, wealth, and empire that rule beneath and beyond the pretense of popular governance. (\u201cWe must make our choice,\u201d the U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote in 1941: \u201cWe may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.\u201d) It\u2019s about capitalism and its evil twin imperialism, with strong doses of racism, patriarchy, nationalism, police-statism, and eco-cide thrown in. It\u2019s about what Karl Marx called \u201cthe bourgeoisie\u2019s\u2026need of a constantly expanding market \u2026over the whole surface of the globe.\u201d \u201cCapital,\u201d the German left Marxist Rosa Luxemburg once observed, \u201cneeds the means of production and the labor power of the whole world for untrammeled accumulation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yes, There is an Imperialist Ruling Class Contemporary history is neither a series of random occurrences nor the predetermined plaything of a small cabal of super-empowered conspirators. The truth is somewhere in-between. A sizeable cadre of class- and system-conscious deep-state and imperial planners from the heights of concentrated private and governmental power join together to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[9644,158,5493,199,259,2500,9645,9643,3899],"class_list":["post-13077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-class","tag-conspiracy","tag-counterpunch","tag-deep-state","tag-empire","tag-history","tag-imperial-powers","tag-imperialist-ruling-class","tag-ruling-class"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13078,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13077\/revisions\/13078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}