The ruling class as a whole, as ruling, is perhaps like Althusser's conception of economic causation: that last lonely instance which never comes? Or perhaps it only emerges when its class rule becomes serioulsy threatened.
On "divisions within capital," that conception historically has been the core of class collaborationist policies on the part of socialists or would-be socialists. Back in 1989 or so, drunk on their new-found pleasures in electoral politics, LRS decided that Daley represented the "progressive wing" of the bourgeosie. A year or two later LRS dissolved. Carrol
