Word: rich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traditional radical approach to this situation is the Marxist one of plumping for the aim of mobilizing these workers to overwhelm the power of the Rich by sheer weight of numbers. This was to be done by explaining to the workers that their interests were not being looked after in the prevailing state of affairs, which realization supposedly would so enrage the working class that they would do something about redressing the situation...
...classes play secondary roles as mere agents. This means that professional people such as doctors or teachers are irrelevant while those who are lawyers or consultants are servants who live off the core of the system but cannot determine it. Also, someone like an entertainer could be very rich but he would not be one of the Rich because he does not take part in the production of goods and hence has no bearing on the decisions that are made in that sector. Equally, middle income people such as clerical staff are not in a position to participate directly...
...Rich, by definition have wealth and control over the business sector. Indirectly but, in a potent way, the Rich, because they have wealth and power in business, also have power in government institutions and the communications branch...
...Technostructure-Rich owe their power mainly to their institutional positions in business, i.e., they can often make decisions that, as Galbraith demonstrated, cannot be overruled by their superiors within business or by any forces outside...
...need hardly be added that the two rich sub-classes do in fact use their power to look after their own interests and these necessarily conflict with the interests of the Workers...