The Ruling Class Doesn’t Rule — But It’s Got Veto Power
Capitalists don’t need to directly govern the state, or even be particularly organized, in order to get what they want.
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In the 1970s, amid economic stagnation and rising class conflict, the Left returned to a question that had long bedeviled it: the role of the state in capitalist society. Fred Block’s 1977 article “The Ruling Class Does Not Rule,” first published in Socialist Revolution, is perhaps the clearest articulation of a structuralist approach to this […]