Ruling class
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“We [Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and Leon Kamin] share a commitment to the prospect of the creation of a more socially just—a socialist—society. And we recognize that a critical science is an integral part of the struggle to create that society, just as we also believe that the social function of much of today’s science is to hinder the creation of that society by acting to preserve the interests of the dominant class, gender, and race.” --preface to Not in Our Genes (1984) |
Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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The ruling class is the social class of a given society that decides upon and sets that society's political agenda.
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See also
- Aristocracy
- Class consciousness
- Elite theory
- Group decision-making
- Hegemony
- New class
- Nobility
- Nomenklatura
- Overclass
- The Man
- Totalitarianism
- Upper ten thousand
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