Ruling Class

OED's earliest etymological "evidence for [the term] ruling class is from 1653, in the writing of J. Rogers."oed.com
"Ruling Class Members of the power elite are consequently defined as those ‘in command of the major hierarchies and organizations of modern society,’ who have the power to make decisions of national and international consequence (Mills, 1956: 4)." From: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015
"In Marxist philosophy, the ruling class are the class who own the means of production in a given society and apply their cultural hegemony to determine and establish the dominant ideology (ideas, culture, mores, norms, traditions) of the society. They are also called the bourgeoisie."En Wiki.
"Instead of ‘ruling class,’ Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923) introduced the term ‘élite’ in his 1916 work Trattato di sociologia generale (translated as A Treatise of General Sociology in 1935), in order to avoid the Marxist intellectual baggage of the former term."sciencedirect.com
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* State; Statehood; Statecraft; Inequality; Hierarchy; Rulers; Owners; Plutocrats
* Social Elite; Financial Elite; Power Elite; Elite Power; Human Social Power
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