Anyone who has lived in the United States, or the planet earth for one day, holds this is common knowledge. I would like to take this opportunity to focus on the author, C. Wright Mills, for a few moments. To better understand what an author is attempting to convey, we must know where he is coming from. Several questions should surface when we approach the material. What are his ideologies on political, economics, or social systems.
Mills talks about the bourgeoisie, the feudal epoch, monopolies, and the laissez-faire.
These words are familiar when we research historical events and read of those who try to over throw our free government. Let's examine a definition and with out disclosing the actual word, we will ascertain what the word is. A system in which production and goods are commonly owned. If we took the one hundred most powerful men in America, the one hundred wealthiest, and the one hundred most celebrated away from the institutional positions they now occupy, away from their resources of men and women and money, away from the media of mass communication that are now focused upon them-then they would be powerless and poor and uncelebrated. For power is not of man.