The Making of an Atlantic Ruling ClassWith The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Kees van der Pijl put class formation at the heart of our understanding of world politics and the global economy. This landmark study dissects one of the most decisive phenomena of the twentieth century--the rise of an Atlantic ruling class of multinational banks and corporations. A new preface by the author evaluates the book's significance in the light of recent political and economic developments. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Class Formation on an Atlantic Scale | 1 |
Hegemonic Concepts of Control | 8 |
Strategies of Internationalization | 20 |
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American capital Atlantic Charter Atlantic circuit Atlantic integration Atlantic Partnership Atlantic unity Atlanticism Atlanticist bank capital bankers became Belgian bourgeoisie Britain British capitalist cartel circuit of money class formation colonial companies concept of control context corporate liberalism corporatist countries crisis Deutsche Bank developed domestic Dresdner Bank Dutch eventually expansion Fascism fictitious capital finance capital forces Fordism foreign policy fraction France French Gaulle Gaullist German hegemony imperialism imperialist income industrial capital interests internationalist intervention interwar investment Italy Kennedy offensive labour liberal internationalism Liberal Party liberal-internationalist Marshall offensive Marshall Plan Minister mode of accumulation money capital money-capital concept NATO Netherlands North Atlantic nuclear organization period political position President productive capital productive-capital concept profit programme prominent relations rentier restructuration Rockefeller Roosevelt Secretary social Socialist Soviet Union sphere-of-interest state-monopoly tendency strategy surplus-value tion trade trade-union United West Germany Western Europe Western European WFTU workers