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4. Change in the Past (1)

verfasst von : Charles Seaford

Erschienen in: Why Capitalists Need Communists

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Normally, when there is no change, elites share norms and expectations of each other, and are unified in a way that their opponents rarely are. This is the source of their power, suggesting that if they become fragmented, and a more unified counter-elite emerges, their grip can be loosened. Historians’ accounts of revolutions or periods of radical change confirm that this is indeed the pattern: the elite fragments and its dissident members join forces with its opponents. The resulting counter-elite forms an alliance with the people, and this alliance is held together by strong belief in ideas and ideals. These contrast the glorious future with the decaying past.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Flourishing and its Role

Nächstes Kapitel Change in the Past (2)

Elites have been defined as groups that exercise the most power in a society (John Scott). As with any sociological definition, this has empirical content: it reminds us that power is exercised by groups and that some groups have more power than others.

Scott talks of distinct counter-elites that fail to fuse into a single counter-elite. The distinct counter-elites he refers to are “those that organise the response to the exercise of power.” They are not really counter-elites of the kind that took over in France in the 1790s, or Britain in the 1940s and to avoid confusion I will not refer to them as counter-elites.

Titel: Change in the Past (1)
verfasst von: Charles Seaford
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Why Capitalists Need Communists
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-98754-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-98755-2

Copyright-Jahr: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98755-2_4