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2016-09-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-11 05:34|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 The alliance between finance and the New Class accounts for the disposition of power in America today. The New Class has also enlisted another invaluable ally: the managerial classes of East Asia. Trade with China—the modern managerial state par excellence—helps keep American industry weak relative to finance and the service economy’s verbalist-dominated sectors. America’s class war, like many others, is not in the end a contest between up and down. It’s a fight between rival elites: in this case, between the declining managerial elite and the triumphant (for now) New Class and financial elites.

The above para is proof that the author is on to something.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-09-11 07:07|| 2016-09-11 07:07|| Front Page Top

#2 —the modern managerial state par excellence—

Really? Following Strategy Page and the immense level of corruption in the economy and state, the lack of proper accounting and tracking to know what is working, what is fraud, and what is just buried by corruption, who knows what the real story is. Remember - "Chicago is the city that works" turns out to be just the shadows on the wall.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-09-11 08:09|| 2016-09-11 08:09|| Front Page Top

#3 The "excellence" stands for the excellent rewards for the "managerial" class, P2k.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-09-11 08:19|| 2016-09-11 08:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Meh. I'd just call them the Inner Party.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-09-11 18:18|| 2016-09-11 18:18|| Front Page Top

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