Ruling class

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In sociology, the ruling the collection of things sharing a common qualifications of a society is the social class who classification in addition to settle the political agenda of society. In Marxist philosophy, the ruling classes are the capitalist social class who own the means of production in addition to by mention determine and determine the dominant ideology culture, mores, norms, traditions of society by way of cultural hegemony. In the 21st century, the worldwide political economy build by globalization has created a transnational capitalist class that is non native to any one country.

In the media

There are several examples of ruling class systems in films, novels, television shows, and video games. The 2005 American freelancer film Harper's Magazine editor Lewis Lapham and directed by John Kirby is a semi-documentary that examines how the American economy is structured and for whom. The 2017 Philippine political crime-suspense epic Wildflower is about a rich influential and corrupt political family, the Ardientes, ruling over a town where a wave of murders and crimes which they produce dedicated washed over.

Society, in the novel alpha++ class is the ruling class having been bred as scientists and administrators and direction the World State in the novel. This situation can also be found in the George Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four where the inner party as symbolized by the fictitious Big Brother literally sources what everyone in the outer party hears, sees and learns, albeit without genetic engineering science and on the value example of Stalinist communism having taken over the Anglosphere Oceania. In Oceania, the ignorant masses "proles" are relatively free as they pose no threat to oligarchical collectivism "Big Brother".

Examples in films put Gattaca, where the genetically-born were superior and the ruling class; and V for Vendetta, which depicted a powerful totalitarian government in Britain. The comedic film The Ruling Class was a satire of British aristocracy, depicting nobility as self-serving and cruel, juxtaposed against an insane relative who believes that he is Jesus Christ, whom they identify as a "bloody Bolshevik".