The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'
The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.
The ruling class is smarter than you, and they're more creative. And if you forget that lesson, you go down the drain. Because if they weren't, they wouldn't be around as long as they have been and as strong as they have been.
Indeed, the existence of class, of social hierarchy, is as old as man himself. It prevails in the jungle where strength determines hierarchy; among men, it has also been savagely the same, whereby rulers vested with power through personal combat, or through lineal heritage as in the case of royalty, ravage their subjects.
At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.