The magnificent mobilisation of the workers which put an end to the coup of 11 April was a sharp reverse for the oligarchy and imperialism. |
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Your goal is to radically transform our constitutional republic into a judicial oligarchy operated by individuals with a leftist agenda. |
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In fact, a financial oligarchy presides over America, which guarantees its maintenance of political power through the two-party stranglehold. |
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The last time that we saw this tumultuous interplay between anarchy and oligarchy was in the 18th century. |
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The financial oligarchy wants the war to continue to perpetuate their global wealth. |
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The Spartan constitution was mixed, containing elements of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy. |
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Yet far worse, this self-electing oligarchy, largely consisting of senior owners, military types and their hangers-on, seem fatally compromised. |
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The war is a policy supported by and conducted in the interests of a ruling oligarchy that both major parties represent and defend. |
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Team Progressives is trying to take over the UNC, which will mean the parasitic oligarchy will take control. |
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China is ruled by an illegitimate communist oligarchy which wants to develop the country commercially while maintaining political control. |
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The leaders of the party and its principal organizations now formed a new oligarchy of privileged citizens. |
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The city's artisans rebelled against the ruling oligarchy of merchants and nobles. |
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We must break the present supranational controls over nation-states, by the financial oligarchy. |
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He is not yet a household name, but the daddy of the Russian oligarchy can still turn heads. |
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The real power in U.S. political parties flows as money from the corporate oligarchy to a party oligarchy. |
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He argues that we live in a corporate oligarchy in which technocracies control technologies. |
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The sense of individual identity of the oligarch is entirely located in the social structure of the oligarchy itself. |
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We are turning back toward an oligarchy that this country should never have. |
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If the only choice in practice was between aristocratic oligarchy and democracy, then he favoured democracy. |
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Egypt is a mock democracy, and Saudi Arabia is a theological monarchy oligarchy run by dictators called the Royal Family. |
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In a totalitarian regime or even an oligarchy we have a ruler, or a group of elites ruling over the masses. |
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To all but the ruling oligarchy in China, Falun Gong looks like any other of countless sects and groups, benign and unthreatening. |
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Not only does this oligarchy of permanent interests control all levers of power, it also holds sway over the country's resources. |
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They both devoted themselves to the further enrichment of an oligarchy at the expense of the people. |
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As you all know, General Fabyein has made plans to abolish the oligarchy and take control of Hilajinn. |
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He is representative of the debased and semi-criminal character of the oligarchy that rules the country. |
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The contradictions between an ascendant democratic movement and a timeworn media oligarchy are extreme. |
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More and more, a financial oligarchy has wrested control of society. |
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Since independence, the blue in the flag has symbolized support for the ruling oligarchy, while the red has symbolized support for communism or resistance. |
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Whether at home or overseas, the US government serves the interests of the financial oligarchy that controls both the Democrats and the Republicans. |
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For more than a millennium, until its fall in 1797, the Republic of Venice was governed by an oligarchy, comprising a limited number of patrician families. |
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Gone are the days when democracy was a window dressing for an oligarchy. |
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Whoever is in the meagre stable of whatever media oligarchy is running that section of the country will present a national editorial. |
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Chile established a parliamentary style democracy in the late 19th century, but degenerated into a system protecting the interests of the ruling oligarchy. |
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They even bring to mind the word oligarchy where a powerful few are in control and are accepting of and tolerant of the sight of hungry children. |
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Generations of people around the world have endured autocracy and dictatorship, totalitarianism, fascism, monarchy, oligarchy and even anarchy without knowing freedom. |
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Certainly they would be better off under a reformist government, rather than the smothering absolutism of the oligarchy. |
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He rules on behalf of an international financial oligarchy, whose political interests are diametrically opposed to that of the mass of the population. |
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Marx, writing as a journalist observing the American civil war, analyses it flatly as a sectional conflict between Northern industrialism and Southern slave oligarchy. |
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Foremost among them is the Chinese communist oligarchy, with its determination to monopolize political power in China. |
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Ancient Athens emerged from tyranny for about 100 years and then self-destructed and the Roman republic was never more than an oligarchy until it too became an empire. |
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He explains that oligarchy, particularly in the present Russian model, is quite simply the rule of the very rich over the majority. |
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The second wave of Russian oligarchy is different from the first in another way, too. |
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The power resided in an oligarchy, a financier oligarchy, which were the leading families of Venice, who were, in their financial aspect, called fondi, or funds. |
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One answer may be that if you want a knowledge society, then it should preferably be a democracy, not a timocracy, an oligarchy or an intellectual dictatorship. |
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He explains that the best state has a large number of these people of moderate wealth, because they will support neither an extreme oligarchy nor an extreme democracy. |
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Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local gentry and merchants, weakening collective action and undermining the corporate, civic culture. |
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It could be argued that the church is not and was never intended to be a democracy, or even a collegial oligarchy, Martin Luther and his theses notwithstanding. |
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From April 1922 Stalin was the only member of the oligarchy who was simultaneously a full member of the Politburo, the Orgburo, and the Secretariat. |
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Related: Beware the rise of the digital oligarchy Advancing technology has always affected the law. |
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Economic rents already accrue to an oligarchy, for which the railway, one way or another, will prove a bonanza. |
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He promised to raise the minimum wage, rehire fired workers and to fight a Greek oligarchy well-known for its corruption and tax evasion. |
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Industrial sectors deemed strategic for the future of Russia were redefined, out of which a new oligarchy emerged. |
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In all too many nations, an oligarchy lives in splendour while the vast majority of people barely survive in conditions of abject poverty. |
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It is believed that in those times there was a very powerful oligarchy at this place and that its inhabitants worshipped Neptune. |
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It is incoherent to build democracy at the national level and to accept oligarchy at the international one. |
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Those who wished to remain in their posts were obliged to connive in the dishonesty of the oligarchy. |
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It had become clear to the Patriotes that the armed forces were giving full support to the oligarchy in power. |
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At home, war will exacerbate social polarization as an ever-greater share of the national income is transferred to both the financial oligarchy and the military. |
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Thus it created an outlet for the social concerns of these groups while enabling the party oligarchy to retain control over the competing sectors within the single movement. |
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Since the political system validates the commercial order, the oligarchy is vulnerable to a reassertion of control by the owners of public institutions. |
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However, the criollo oligarchy in Peru enjoyed privileges and remained loyal to the Spanish Crown. |
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The class struggles of the Roman Republic resulted in an unusual mixture of democracy and oligarchy. |
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Then will not this constitution be a kind of mean between aristocracy and oligarchy? |
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Historically prevalent forms of government include aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny. |
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Initially, this applied to the owners of the machinery of production, the economic oligarchy, factory owners and traders. |
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An oligarchy is different from a true democracy because very few people are given the chance to change things. |
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Some historical examples of oligarchy are the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
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Some critics of representative democracy think of the United States as an oligarchy. |
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The Itasca Project is just one example of existing oligarchy, and a surprisingly open one at that. |
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Moreover, there has been evident in Germany during the past quarter of a century a rising spirit of democracy which has brought inquietude to the ruling oligarchy and to those who are devoted to the principles of absolutism. |
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The parasitism that characterizes financial oligarchy exhibits the contradictions of a regime of useless exploitation that expresses itself in militarism, despoiling war and ever more intense crises. |
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Although the causes were not exactly the same, the Lower-Canadian rebels were also frustrated with the political oligarchy that controlled their province. |
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This sounds more like oligarchy than free and competitive markets. |
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But where is the dividing line between that kind of authoritarian regime and an oligarchy of corrupt parasites, whose very existence precludes any development? |
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Glance at data on income inequality and economic immobility and you'd be forgiven for concluding that America is closer to oligarchy than workers' paradise. |
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This equates to leaving power in the hands of the oligarchy composed of the major companies that have entered into bilateral agreements with leading performers. |
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The group, seen by the Reformers as an oligarchy, held conservative attitudes and vehemently defended both British traditions and their own privileged economic and political positions. |
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Even if it does, the vital national interests of the rest of the United Nations membership will continue to be unrepresented and therefore ignored in the work and decisions of the Council's new and enlarged oligarchy. |
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Since the annexation of Baluchistan by Pakistan, the ruling oligarchy had been pillaging the region's resources and violating the basic human rights of the Baluch nation, including the right to self-determination. |
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That is what happened in Athens when, under terrific internal and external stresses, its rowdy democratic government was replaced by an oligarchy known as the Twenty Tyrants. |
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That entity may be an individual, as in an autocracy, or it may be a group, as in an oligarchy. |
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From 1903 to 1968, Panama was a constitutional democracy dominated by a commercially oriented oligarchy. |
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While acknowledging the realities of political pressure, however, the oligarchy was determined to keep control. |
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It was either a small republic, or an oligarchy, and his father was an elected chieftain, or oligarch. |
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The state of the Shakya clan was not a monarchy and seems to have been structured either as an oligarchy, or as a form of republic. |
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In the meantime, the banking system has essentially canalized all its own tools towards this oligarchy, taking out foreign currency loans. |
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Instead we have witnessed the emergence of the Age of oligarchy. |
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They also transgressed the established oligarchy by advancing unelected individuals to magisterial office, and by substituting magisterial edicts for popular legislation. |
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Rome's merchants and independent farmers were turned into landless serfs on the latifundia, the vast land monopolies that Rome's oligarchy accumulated. |
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Momentarily pleasing the oligarchy and all others on the right, but followed a populist course that won him great favor with the poor and lower classes. |
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The ruling class was an oligarchy of merchants and aristocrats. |
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Strengthening of state institutions and stronger regulation is the way to overcome problems with the oligarchy and oligopolies, stated rightist leader Ivan Kostov. |
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An oligarchy does not have one clear ruler but several rulers. |
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