{"id":17783,"date":"2024-06-17T01:39:17","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T01:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/?p=17783"},"modified":"2024-06-17T01:39:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T01:39:17","slug":"the-transnational-ruling-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/2024\/06\/17\/the-transnational-ruling-class\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transnational Ruling Class: A Conspiratorial Elite or Part of a Global Class Structure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/240625_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17784 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/240625_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1260\" height=\"891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/240625_.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/240625_-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/240625_-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/240625_-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/240625_-160x113.jpg 160w, https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/240625_-400x283.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 99vw, (max-width: 900px) 98vw, 876px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Date: <\/strong>June 25<strong>t<\/strong>h, Tuesday, 2024, 15:00 &#8211; 17:30<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location: <\/strong>Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<p>Presenter: Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia)<\/p>\n<p>For many generations now, a significant number of Marxist theorists have been allergic to agency-centered analyses that emphasize the roles in historical events of what C. Wright Mills dubbed \u201cthe power elite.\u201d Responding in kind, power elite analysts such as G. William Domhoff have dismissed much of Marxist analysis as mechanistic and unable to effectively account for many historical political events. The work of international relations scholars such as Kees van der Pijl, on the Atlantic Ruling Class, provides pathways around this unproductive stalemate, as does work by scholars such as the unorthodox leftist historian Gabriel Kolko. In this talk, I note how I have used the work of van der Pijl, Kolko, and others to construct a notion of the Pacific Ruling Class, and I argue that transnational ruling classes generally play central roles in the overall accumulation dynamics of capitalism, including in exploitation and imperial appropriation of surplus value, not to mention in generating global social conflict. Ignoring them in the name of focusing on \u201cthe class structure\u201d or regarding them as secondary elements of the mode of production makes Marxist analysis unable to account for major events that are neither mere elite conspiracies nor simple expressions of capitalism\u2019s accumulation dynamics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: June 25th, Tuesday, 2024, 15:00 &#8211; 17:30 Location: Room 303, SNUAC (Bldg. 101) Presenter: Jim Glassman (University of British Columbia) For many generations now, a significant number of Marxist theorists have been allergic to agency-centered analyses that emphasize the roles in historical events of what C. Wright Mills dubbed \u201cthe power elite.\u201d Responding in kind, power elite analysts such as G. William Domhoff have dismissed much of Marxist analysis as mechanistic and unable to effectively account for many historical political events. The work of international relations scholars such as Kees van der Pijl, on the Atlantic Ruling Class, provides pathways around this unproductive stalemate, as does work by scholars such as the unorthodox leftist historian Gabriel Kolko. In this talk, I note how I have used the work of van der Pijl, Kolko, and others to construct a notion&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17784,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17785,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783\/revisions\/17785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snuac.snu.ac.kr\/eng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}