c wright mills

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</div><div><div>In his 1956 book The Power Elite, C. Wright Mills documented</div><div>how World War II solidified a trinity of power in the United</div><div>States that comprised corporate, military, and government</div><div>elites in a centralized power structure motivated by class inter-</div><div>
</div><div>transnational capitalist class power elite 23</div><div>ests and working in unison through “higher circles” of contact</div><div>and agreement. Mills described how the power elite were those</div><div>“who decide whatever is decided” of major consequence.8</div><div>These</div><div>higher-circle decision makers tended to be more concerned</div><div>with inter-organizational relationships and the functioning of</div><div>
</div><div>the economy as a whole rather than just advancing their par-</div><div>ticular corporate interests.9</div><div>
</div><div>Mills is careful to observe that the</div><div>conception of a power elite does not rest solely on personal</div><div>friendship, but rather relies on a broader ideology of shared</div><div>corporate system goals.10</div></div>