What began as a demonstration against Wall Street elite quickly became a counter-culture movement. It was dubbed the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement (later shortened to simply “Occupy”), and quickly spread to cities throughout the country, the biggest movements being in New York City and on the West Coast in the Oakland/San Francisco Bay area. Today France has a fake socialist government that caters to the insatiable capitalist desires of the ruling class.Īfter almost half a century of slumber, another populist movement began in New York City’s Zuccotti Park during September 2011.
These upper class power struggles and internal conflicts caused years of economic hardships for the lower class, finally resulting in another populist revolution, and eventually leading to a parliamentarian system. The struggles were between the upper classes vying for power- royals against deputies, politicians in the constitutional monarchy who falsely claimed to have the people’s interests at heart.
More years of power struggles ensued, but minus a popular movement. After some back and forth conflict between Napoleon Bonaparte’s forces and those who wanted to restore the Bourbon kings to the throne, the monarchy was reestablished, although with limited power, as a constitutional monarchy. And in fact, it is perfectly visible in our society that the likelihood of occupying a position of power in one generation is highly influenced by the power status of the antecedent generation.įrench Revolutionaries thought the “end of aristocracy” was achieved when they executed King Louis XVI, but this ending resulted in a dictator who made himself “First Consul for life” with the right to choose his successor, and then later crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I. Now we have Mills's hypothesis in a nutshell: at a given time there is a small subset of the population who occupy most of the positions of power and the probability is great that the sons and daughters of this group will occupy similar positions of power in the next generation. And we might give our thought experiment one additional feature: we might look at snapshots of the same data for each generation identified by families.
But, if Mills is right, there will be a small subset of people who are interconnected through many relationships to institutional sources of power: memberships in boards, offices in corporations, directorships of banks, trustees of universities. The vast majority of the population would exist in single points at the bottom of the map most people don't have a position of power at all. But even more compelling would be a study that doesn't exist yet - a social network map that represents something like the whole population of a community, linking individuals to the institutions in which they occupy a position of power.
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