For thirty years I have been hammering away
about the crucial importance of understanding “power elite analysis” or
“libertarian class analysis” in order to make sense of how American society
operates. Historic events are not random and unconnected but fall within an
intelligible political/economic context.
This is clearly something our Founding
Fathers knew well. They spelled this out for all the world to see and reflect
upon in the Declaration of Independence.
I have never seen this stated in such a
clear and eloquent manner than in Angelo M. Codevilla’s new book, The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America And What We
Can Do About It. It should be read by everyone concerned with
the future of our nation, and shared with friends, family, colleagues, etc.
Dr. Codevilla’s original article which
forms the heart and soul of this volume was published in the July-August
edition of The American Spectator.
It is
the most important essay I have ever read. He has expanded upon this initial
article in this compact but concise paperback.
For the first time I have begun to
understand how generations of leftist intellectuals and activists were
passionately moved and inspired by the Communist Manifesto of 1848, or how our
own American Revolutionaries were motivated in 1776 by Tom Paine’s stirring
Common Sense, clearly elucidating the case for American independence from
British tyranny and oppression.
Codevilla has written a true American
manifesto for our time, a brilliant analytical framework and dramatic call to
action that will motivate millions in the Freedom Movement, the Tea Parties,
and in the general society at-large.
His work draws on the pioneering
scholarship of Bernard Bailyn (The Origins of American Politics, The
Ideological Origins of the American Revolution) and Murray Rothbard (Conceived in Liberty, The Ethics of Liberty) in seeing American
politics as two adversarial classes at war with each other — an arrogant elite
ruling class and “the country class” — the rest of us held at bay.
It deserves the widest possible readership
and distribution possible.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/01/no_author/political-elite-versus-people/
