Ritafee
Is Being Human
You have to be careful, and examine words like "elite", these days, and where they're coming from and in what context they're used, because it is often seen as an anti-Semitic dog whistle word.
Noam Chomsky did not seem to have a problem with the word 'elite' as used in the context of my previous post ...
Giants: The Global Power Elite. - “This remarkable inquiry lifts the veil, providing detailed and often shocking revelations about the astonishing concentration of private wealth and corporate power, its institutions and integrated structure – and not least, its threat to civilized and humane existence.” Noam Chomsky, Emeritus Professor of MIT
In the context of my previous post let us refer to this definition of 'elite' for clarification then shall we:
- The elite (French élite, from Latin eligere) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a society. Defined by the Cambridge Dictionary, the "elite" are "those people or organizations that are considered the best or most powerful compared to others of a similar type."
- Transnational Capitalist Class Power Elite: A Seventy-Year History
- The Global Financial Giants: The Central Core of Global Capitalism, 17 capital investment firms with over $1 trillion dollars, a $41.1 trillion dollar cluster of cross-invested centralized capital
- Managers: The Global Power Elite of the Financial Giants, 199 directors of the Giant investment firms, names biographies and public net worth
- Facilitators: The Power Elite Policy Planning Center of the Transnational Capitalist Class, the 86 policy elites in the G-30 and the Trilateral Commission, names biographies and public net worth
- Protectors: The Power Elite and the US Military NATO Empire, Intelligence Agencies, and Private Military Companies, the executive committee of the Atlantic Council, names biographies and public net worth
- Ideologists: Corporate Media and Public Relations Propaganda Firms, top media officials and the three largest PR firms, names biographies and public net worth
- Facing the Juggernaut: Democracy Movements and Resistance