The Crucial Importance of Power Elite Analysis

This Sybil Edmonds interview on the crucial importance of Power Elite Analysis is an excellent complement to Lew Rockwell’s superb LRC interview today of Peter Dale Scott discussing his forthcoming book, The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil, and the Attack on U. S. Democracy. As I pointed out in my LRC article, Hidden History: Where Organized Crime and Government Meet:

An understanding of Libertarian Class Analysis is the “litmus test” separating real libertarians from alternative lifestyle dilettantes dabbling in free market theory. Sometimes labeled “Power Elite Analysis” or “Establishment Studies,” this examination of causal relationships regarding the nature and scope of political power, who has it and how it is exercised, is crucial to understanding the nexus between the State and organized crime. We will show the similarity between this analysis and what researcher Peter Dale Scott calls “Deep Politics,” the critical examination of the sub-rosa reality behind surface events, an attempt to unmask the true face of power, exposing the elite social, economic, and financial groups and individuals who benefit from the exercise of State coercion.

 

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11:09 am on October 18, 2014