That one's easy, it's our beloved oligarchs of course. But you're absolutely right, that's ultimately what you have to look at. Whose interests does the cultural hegemony we live under serve.
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.
That one's easy, it's our beloved oligarchs of course. But you're absolutely right, that's ultimately what you have to look at. Whose interests does the cultural hegemony we live under serve.
Lenin, 1913