Ruling class
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Illustration:Liberty Leading the People (1831, detail) by Eugène Delacroix.
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The ruling class is the social class of a given society that decides upon and sets that society's political agenda.
See also
- Aristocracy
- Class consciousness
- Elite theory
- Group decision-making
- Hegemony
- New class
- Nobility
- Nomenklatura
- Overclass
- The Man
- The Superclass List
- Totalitarianism
- Upper ten thousand
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