Deepening the Void

The ruling class has found that “externalizing” their decision making to transnational organizations of various sorts can be a way to evade accountability. It is also a contradictory and self-undermining mode of governance.

What does the ruling class do when it rules? This was the question posed by Swedish sociologist Göran Therborn back in 1978. While many sociological analyses of the time concentrated on the ideas or interests of the ruling class, Therborn showed how these ideas and interests are perpetuated: namely, through a continuity of elite personnel. In short, the…