As a class, abstracted from individuals, yes, the class rule of a minority has to be manipulative or the majority wouldn’t tolerate it. Hegemony means generalization of particular minority interests. They make it our business, that their profits keep flowing. In a profitability crisis, they make everyone else suffer for it.
So would you say the ruling class are manipulative liars then
As a class, abstracted from individuals, yes, the class rule of a minority has to be manipulative or the majority wouldn’t tolerate it. Hegemony means generalization of particular minority interests. They make it our business, that their profits keep flowing. In a profitability crisis, they make everyone else suffer for it.