Bilderberg group (2001)

From the November 2001 issue of the Socialist Standard

It has been pointed out to us that a passage on page 4 of the September Socialist Standard about the G8 leaders could have been misunderstood as saying that the "semi-mythological Bilderberg group" were the real rulers of the world. The Bilderberg group is a gathering of politicians and their paymasters in the ruling class and is not beholden to one or another government or state. Beyond the fact that its members and attendees are typically representative of ruling class opinion and powerful in their own right, their collective power as members of Bilderberg is certainly open to conjecture, though it won't extend to controlling governments. 

Editors.