Ruling Class

Death By Black Excellence

April 18, 2026 Sol Elias, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Black Politicians, ICE, Identity Politics, Ruling Class

Identity reductionism—often misidentified as and used interchangeably with identity politics, coined by the Combahee River Collective—has become one of the definitive political reflexes of our time: an automated response that prioritizes symbolic protection over substantive engagement. In my own imperfect words, it is the liberal tendency to parasitically latch onto people who are categorically oppressed by systems: white supremacy, racial capitalism, cisheteropatriarchy, ableism, and/or saneism, to name a few.

The Big Idea: Guerrilla Theater

April 14, 2026 J. Patrick Patterson, In These Times. Strategize! Guerilla Theater, History, Protests, Ruling Class

Absurd, ridiculous fun. It’s Abbie Hoffman throwing dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to watch the scramble in 1967. It’s the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army bouncing into “clownarchy” to protest the Iraq War in 2003, confusing authorities and inviting mockery of their repression. It’s the Portland Frog Brigade wearing inflatables outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility to protest raids and deportations. It’s creating irresistible images to cut through the spectacle of modern life.

What Do Authoritarians Fear Most?

April 13, 2026 Sarah van Gelder, Truthout. Strategize! Mutual Aid, popular power, Ruling Class, Solidarity

Even before Donald Trump launched a war on Iran, his presidency had heightened the strain on millions of people in the United States struggling with high prices and precarious work. Now, as the U.S. and Israel escalate their violence in the Middle East, pressures at home are intensifying. Higher prices at the gas pump make the war-related surge in energy costs visible to all. Less apparent are disruptions to global fertilizer supplies resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Combined with widespread drought and the impacts of tariffs, the fertilizer shortage could cut food supplies, worsening the affordability crisis and spreading food insecurity.

To Whom Are Our Liars Lying; What Is The Point Of Their Lies?

February 25, 2026 Patrick Lawrence, Consortium News. Educate! Media, Propanganda, Ruling Class, Russia, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

To make the case that those who purport to lead the Western post-democracies lie routinely about what they are doing and why they are doing it will not help you win friends and influence people. That they are incessantly deceitful has been too obvious to too many people for too long. Never forget your Dale Carnegie and the imperative always to say something interesting. Lately something interesting in this line has occurred to me. It came to me last autumn — on Oct. 25 to be precise. I was reading The New York Post, as one must to keep one’s head clear in our complicated world, and came upon an opinion piece headlined “Vlad’s war of words.”

Epstein Files Shows How The Elites Move

February 8, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Epstein, Power Elites, Ruling Class, Sex Trafficking

The late Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of news for many years before his 2019 death and is still a newsmaker today owing to his years long relation with Donald Trump who is now in his second term in the presidency. The multi-millionaire financier had a tangled web of financial and political relationships with powerful people all over the world. Perhaps he was best known for the sex trafficking he used to compromise powerful people, but it seems that this activity, which is commonly known, was as it were, his side hustle.

Dr. King’s Legacy: No Borders In The Workers’ Struggle!

January 15, 2026 Workers' World. Strategize! Martin Luther King Jr, Ruling Class, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

January 19 will officially mark the 40th anniversary of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday, a demand won through many years of grassroots struggle. If he were alive today, King would have celebrated his 97th birthday on Jan. 15. Dr. King dedicated his entire adult life to fighting for Civil Rights for African Americans, especially in the Deep South during the 1950s and 1960s. And during the last year of his life, King showed concrete support for striking Black sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, while simultaneously calling for an end to the Vietnam war, a war he characterized as immoral.

What Kind Of ‘-ocracy’ Are We? The Choice Is Yours

July 17, 2025 Peter Greenhill, Popular Resistance. Educate! Democracy, Kakistocracy, Plutocracy, Ruling Class, Thanatocracy, United States

It’s time to choose your “–ocracy,” the one you think best fits a US society and system in free fall. There are some choices to suggest. We live not only in a plutocracy, it is also at the same time both a kakistocracy and a thanatocracy. What it isn’t any longer is a democracy, and it hasn’t been one for some time now. Our efforts should thus be directed at making it the kind of democracy it’s supposed to be. Let’s explain these terms so that you can make an informed choice. In doing so, let’s start with plutocracy because it’s the one getting the most attention lately.

How Fascism Came

December 24, 2024 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Chris Hedges, Corruption, Donald Trump, Fascism, Ruling Class

President-elect Donald Trump does not herald the advent of fascism. He heralds the collapse of the veneer that masked the corruption within the ruling class and their pretense of democracy. He is the symptom, not the disease. The loss of basic democratic norms began long before Trump, which paved the road to an American totalitarianism. Deindustrialization, deregulation, austerity, unchecked predatory corporations, including the health-care industry, wholesale surveillance of every American, social inequality, an electoral system that is plagued by legalized bribery, endless and futile wars, the largest prison population in the world, but most of all feelings of betrayal, stagnation and despair, are a toxic brew that culminate in an inchoate hatred of the ruling class and the institutions they have deformed to exclusively serve the rich and the powerful.

Capitalism’s In-House Critic: Hedges’ Monbiot Interview

October 19, 2024 Jonathan Cook, Consortium News. Educate! Capitalism, Media, Ruling Class, The Guardian

Chris Hedges hosts a very interesting discussion with Guardian columnist George Monbiot on his new book about capitalism and its modern incarnation, neoliberalism. Monbiot rightly sees capitalism as a supremely “coercive, destructive and exploitative mode of economic organisation.” Neoliberalism, observes Monbiot, emerged as capitalism’s response to its biggest challenge: democracy. After centuries of struggle, Western publics managed to win the vote. The capitalist ruling class faced a major problem. The public sought to use its newfound political power to secure other rights, such as labour protections. Workers organised into trade unions to demand a bigger share of the value of the commodities they created. These new voters also wanted a better quality of life, including weekends off and proper housing, and an environment free of industrial pollutants that were (and still are) contaminating the air they breathed, the food they ate, and the water they drank.

British Foreign Policy: The Elite Vs The Public

July 1, 2024 Ian Sinclair, Morning Star. Strategize! Antiwar Movement, Class Struggle, Ruling Class, Social Movements, United Kingdom (UK)

Two polls published earlier this month make interesting reading. Asked by YouGov “Do you think the UK was right or wrong to take military action in the following wars…?”, just 26 per cent of respondents answered it was right to take military action in the 1991 Gulf War, 29 per cent in Kosovo in 1999, and only 20 per cent in Afghanistan and 16 per cent in Iraq in 2003, while 48 per cent and 54 per cent said it was wrong to take military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively. Another poll by Focaldata for news and opinion website Unherd found 44 per cent of respondents thought Britain should be less engaged in overseas conflicts, compared to just 7 per cent who said the nation should be more engaged.

The Donald Trump Problem

March 27, 2023 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Donald Trump, Legal System, Ruling Class

Donald Trump — facing four government-run investigations, three criminal and one civil, targeting himself and his business — is not being targeted because of his crimes. Nearly every serious crime he is accused of carrying out has been committed by his political rivals. He is being targeted because he is deemed dangerous for his willingness, at least rhetorically, to reject the Washington Consensus regarding neoliberal free-market and free-trade policies, as well as the idea that the U.S. should oversee a global empire. He has not only belittled the ruling ideology, but urged his supporters to attack the apparatus that maintains the duopoly by declaring the 2020 election illegitimate.

Elites Are Clueless, And So On

December 22, 2022 Editors, In These Times. Educate! Class Struggle, Information, Kurt Vonnegut, Ruling Class

In 2005, Kurt Vonnegut wrote: Most of you, if not all of you, like me, feel inadequately educated. That is an ordinary feeling for a member of our species. One of the most brilliant human beings of all times, George Bernard Shaw said on his 75th birthday or so that at last he knew enough to become a mediocre office boy. He died in 1950, by the way, when I was 28. He is the one who said, “Youth is wasted on the young.” I turned 83 a couple weeks ago, and I must say I agree. Shaw, if he were alive today, would envy us the solid information that we have or can get about the nature of the universe, about time and space and matter, about our own bodies and brains, about the resources and vulnerabilities of our planet, about how all sorts of human beings actually talk and feel and live. This is the information revolution. We have taken it very badly so far. Information seems to be getting in the way all the time.

The Dawn Of The Apocalypse

July 26, 2022 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Chris Hedges, climate crisis, Extreme weather, Ruling Class

The past week has seen record-breaking heat waves across Europe. Wildfires have ripped through Spain, Portugal and France. London’s fire brigade experienced its busiest day since World War II. The U.K. saw its hottest day on record of 104.54 Fahrenheit. In China, more than a dozen cities issued the “highest possible heat warning” this weekend with over 900 million people in China enduring a scorching heat wave along with severe flooding and landslides across large swathes of southern China. Dozens of people have died. Millions of Chinese have been displaced. Economic losses run into the billions of yuan. Droughts, which have destroyed crops, killed livestock and forced many to flee their homes, are creating a potential famine in the Horn of Africa.

The Language We Use To Talk About Inequality, Power, And Class Matters

July 9, 2022 Celine-Marie Pascale, Inequality.org. Strategize! Class Struggle, Language, Ruling Class, wealth inequality

In the US, discourses of inequality seldom are rooted to the nation’s long history of violent class conflict. Two examples of that history which come quickly to mind are the 1892 Homestead steel strike in Pittsburgh, which earned a place in labor history as the Homestead Massacre and the 1921 coal strike known as the Battle of Blair Mountain in which workers saw their homes bombed as they faced army troops. These were extreme but not unique moments in the history of labor. Oppressive working conditions and inadequate pay have never been an accident or the result of an oversight — they have been for profit.

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