Class privilege has reached the point where the entire society is ruled by a plutocracy. |
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The danger is that plutocracy will prevail over democracy, that the free market will rule over the free citizen. |
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What we're effectively seeing is the displacement of democratic representative government with something approaching plutocracy. |
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It would replace democracy with plutocracy, letting the wealthy and big business make laws in their own interests. |
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Such policies threaten the interest of the plutocracy that runs this county and controls both the Democrats and Republicans. |
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The outcome of this inevitable economic process was not government of, for and by the people, but of, for and by the new capitalist plutocracy. |
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Dark times are ahead because there is no republic anymore only a plutocracy. |
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No one, whatever their conception of justice, can accept public policies which turn a democracy into a plutocracy. |
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We need to change our government in a revolutionary way, and overthrow the plutocracy that controls our government. |
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Today, more than ever, it resembles a plutocracy, a society governed by a handful of enormously wealthy individuals. |
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The plutocracy presently in charge of these matters must become alert to the needs of all. |
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They pointed out that a country ruled by the very wealthy is actually a plutocracy, not a democracy. |
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The country today is a plutocracy, a society run in the interests of billionaires and millionaires. |
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For in reality France under Louis XVI was governed not by the nobility, but by a plutocracy in which the majority of nobles had no share. |
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And as skeptical as I am of majority opinion right now, it's better than the unbridled greed of the plutocracy we've got at present. |
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The new plutocracy wanted a recognizable artistic language that would ease their cultural insecurities and establish their legitimacy. |
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The plutocracy, by contrast, still lives in the Mad Men era, and family life becomes more patriarchal the richer you get. |
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Indeed, it does appear they are increasingly living in a plutocracy, and this is a factor that simply cannot be overlooked in the discussion of class polarization. |
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Since most people don't want to admit out loud that they live in a plutocracy, successful politicians have, until now, worked hard to keep up an illusion. |
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In the end, the financial plutocracy handpicked the president. |
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A century ago the city was a playground for the New York plutocracy. |
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The existing two-party system, whose personnel are utterly dependent on the financial support of the plutocracy, is thoroughly unrepresentative of the general population. |
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The second is that they now know of a plutocracy that did not use to exist and makes us very uneasy. |
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Were we witnessing the rise of a plutocracy or the emergence of a meritocracy? |
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In practice, power rested with a hereditary plutocracy, but it was expected to earn its privileges through public service. |
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He compares plutocracy in modern America to its forerunners in 17th-century Holland and 19th-century Britain. |
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The power of the plutocracy will not change with more women in the institutions that serve it. |
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As long as the state monopolies existed in public services, they mainly served the interests of the plutocracy. |
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The benefits to these countries are only channelled into the local plutocracy, and the IMF ensures there are no social safety nets left. |
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These are measures to arm the plutocracy, which will exacerbate social and class antagonisms and bring new trials and tribulations to the people. |
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What is normally qualified as democracy is far from reality is rather close to a plutocracy that discards citizens. |
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However, democracy can default into anarchy, autocracy, liberalism, plutocracy, republic, just about anything, if the majority desires a leader who is representative of that. |
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Instead, at this pace Smith brings the reader right around to the conflicts of Soviet old, but mutated thanks to added plutocracy. |
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In the large cities the urbanized working class were slaves to a plutocracy. |
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The apologists for plutocracy are content this week to use anti-racism as their debating tool. |
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In the realm of politics, however, plutocracy can buy itself more substantial rewards. |
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As you've pointed out in many of your articles, the revolution against the capitalist plutocracy is largely a war of words and ideas at this point. |
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This is how democracy deteriorates into market research, oligarchy, plutocracy, bureaucracy and technocracy. |
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He or she is constantly on the move in search of employment, works until advanced old age or even death, and provides untold riches to be plundered by the plutocracy. |
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The preceding argument on the distribution of political capacity can thus be summarized in the following formula: shareholder plutocracy is not entrepreneurial democracy. |
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In other words, it is always the workers who pay, never the plutocracy. |
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The Structural Funds are used by governments to strengthen the plutocracy of the Member States, the imperialist plans of the Member States, the concentration of capital and the escalation of the monopolies. |
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So it is refreshing that this spring the accessorial plutocracy has been broken and you need look no further than the bathroom mirror to find the latest catwalk must-have. |
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It was almost a relief when British newspapers reported that Italy's star footballers were threatening to strike rather than pay a wealth tax. In contrast, a deep, velvet-and-mahogany silence envelops the British plutocracy. |
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Apparently, this was not to the liking of the United States, the local plutocracy or the European Union, which is maintaining an indulgent silence. |
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Of course, this definition clearly sets democracy apart from the other forms of government that have existed throughout history, such as monarchy, oligarchy and plutocracy. |
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Nor can it confine itself to defending the rights of the developing world, now that the plutocracy has its sights set more firmly than ever on people in the developed world. |
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Within the frameworks of the single market and the stability pact, the Member States are selling off the grassroots wealth, thereby strengthening the plutocracy. |
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U show an increase in deficit and debt, and yet no mention is made of the increase in the profits of the plutocracy and of who wins from this policy. |
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If only the wealthy can afford to run for public office, are we more a plutocracy than a democracy? |
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The arteriosclerotic Porfirio Diaz regime accomplished some of these objectives, but at the expense of liberty and democracy and in service of an arrogant plutocracy. |
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Although aristocratic values permeated traditional elite society, a strong tendency towards plutocracy is indicated by the wealth requirements for census rank. |
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