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The Power Elite
C. Wright Mills · Oxford University Press · 1956
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C. Wright Mills
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2026-09-01
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ISBN 019500020X.
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Gaetano Mosca held that in all societies there are two classes, a minority that rules and a majority that is ruled, and that the ruling minority prevails because it is organised and justifies itself through a political formula.
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