How The Oligarchy Gets Politicized
A Short History of Elite Responses To Political-Economic Crisis

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/11/15/how-the-oligarchy-gets-politicized/
Date Written:  2011-11-15
Publisher:  CounterPunch
Year Published:  2011
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX13880

The political activism of the elite is striking in times of crisis, when the latter takes the form either of severe economic contraction or of working-class militancy, or both.

Subject Headings

• Capitalist Class
• Capitalist Crises
• Class Conflict/Class Struggle
• Class Consciousness
• Elites