Ruling class

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'''Ruling class''' is a term to describe a social class that rules over another. The ruling class has historically been the rich and the educated. There has always been a ruling class of sorts, from nobles and wealthy land owners which populated fuedal societies to the monarchies of the United Kingdom.

The term ''ruling class'', in the political sense, originated in [[Karl Marx]]'s work ''The Communist Manifesto''. In it Marx argued that the ruling class changes as the means of production alters, something he called historical dialectic. Marx predicted the ruling class, the capitalist Bourgeois, would be overthrown by the under class, the Proletariat. Due to an apparent rise in Western living conditions and technological advances, Marx's vision has not yet come to pass.

==See also==

[[Karl Marx]]

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Perestroika

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Radicaldharma:

'''''Perestroika''''', which means "restructuring", was a new policy introduced by [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] in the [[Soviet Union]] to allow the people to own small businesses. Gorbachev tried to transform the stagnant, inefficient state capitalist command economy, which had been inaugurated by Stalin's mass industrialisation policies, into a decentralized, market-oriented economy based on free market capitalism. Under ''perestroika'', open elections were held, and industrial managers were granted greater autonomy. It also contributed to the complete collapse of the [[Soviet Union]]. See also ''[[glasnost]]'', its social and cultural counterpart.

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