Oligarchy (and socialism) Former candidate Bernie Sanders sent people rushing to online dictionaries after using the term "oligarchy" -- something he said Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton would work against.
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This is a tough question because there is a sense in which America is possibly an oligarchy or sliding into oligarchy already, and some political scientists are arguing this.
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Far from democratising entertainment, the internet will entrench an oligarchy.
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Our current election funding system has us hurtling toward oligarchy.
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This movement toward oligarchy is not just an American issue.
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When did we change from a democracy to an oligarchy?
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As a republic descends into an oligarchy, the people revolt.
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It never takes place from an oligarchy controlled by billionaires.
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"This arbitrary cap has created an oligarchy," the lawsuit says.
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For anarchists and socialists, a fascist oligarchy controls free market societies.
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It probably doesn't hurt that Jeb is part of the oligarchy.
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"Now it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery," Carter said.
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Oligarchy and classism is as common as mangos in Latin America.
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Oligarchy or tyranny, economic inequality meant the end of the republic.
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Sanders also calls for fighting "inequality, corruption, oligarchy, and authoritarianism" globally.
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But is Tyrion's benevolent oligarchy an upgrade from the old monarchy system?
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We now have a hint about Phase II of Operation Tech Oligarchy.
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To her, you're a stooge of the oligarchy that runs this country.
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There is no other person in the oligarchy that enjoys such power.
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It was also a vivid reminder that the sport remains an oligarchy.
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What are some oligarchic parallels you see between historical oligarchy and Bloomberg?
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To confuse American values with Putin, who is running a criminal oligarchy.
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That's a problem, because it turns our representative democracy into an oligarchy.
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Clashing with an entrenched oligarchy, positivists campaigned for Brazilian abolition in 1888.
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A trend toward authoritarianism, a normalization of corruption and the rise of oligarchy.
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The Democratic National Committee is now a relic of mechanisms spinning toward oligarchy.
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America is an imperfect democracy, in other words — but it's hardly an oligarchy.
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When we talk about oligarchy, let us be clear about what we mean.
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And that's a situation where we really are on the brink of oligarchy.
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But the oligarchy emerging on Pennsylvania Avenue today is something not seen before.
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The Russian oligarchy purchase to Trump's Florida property at a highly inflated price?
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But his ownership of newspapers and other media leads to fears of incipient oligarchy.
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The Sessions story further underscored the cozy relationship between Trump's associates and Russia's oligarchy.
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And when you have capitalism without democracy, you get crony capitalism and eventually oligarchy.
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Most people who vote don't know what Citizens United means, or what "oligarchy" means.
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The maddening king of fantasy was deposed; the oligarchy of the writers' room presided.
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It was to prevent, from that tabula rasa, the formation of a new oligarchy.
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"Inequality, corruption, oligarchy and authoritarianism are inseparable," Mr. Sanders said in a recent address.
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On one hand, we see a growing worldwide movement toward authoritarianism, oligarchy and kleptocracy.
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Would these records show that Mr. Trump is, literally, indebted to the Russian oligarchy?
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After all that bloodshed and prophecy and smoke babies, Westeros is now a...benevolent oligarchy.
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Instead we just added a few new gatekeepers to the entertainment oligarchy: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix.
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A well-connected oligarchy is sucking up a disproportionate share of the proceeds of growth.
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That strategy let the Shots family of stars become the oligarchy ruling Vine's Popular page.
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Now that the oligarchy has been humbled, the question is how Mr Duterte will govern.
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The word "oligarchy" is important to Sanders, and it gives his statements a messianic tone.
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Plato thought political regimes followed a predictable evolutionary course, from oligarchy to democracy to tyranny.
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The philosopher refused, and escaped death only because the oligarchy collapsed when exiled democrats rebelled.
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If they talk mostly about oligarchy and rich financiers, they are retreating to their base.
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In Congress, he developed "the oligarchy speech," a bleak overview of income inequality in America.
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In their lifestyle and mentality, Ukraine's kleptocrats are identical to their counterparts in Russia's oligarchy.
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Sanders hit all his high notes, from oligarchy to money in politics to single-payer healthcare.
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Otherwise, we no longer live in a representative democracy, but rather an oligarchy of agency bureaucrats.
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Mr Carswell thinks that a new oligarchy is the biggest threat to the welfare of mankind.
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In his view, established political parties serve the interests of the oligarchy rather than the people.
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"I will never give myself to the oligarchy, trust me," Maduro said at a recent demonstration.
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Oligarchy, rule by the few, also tends to become rule by the monstrously self-centered. Narcisstocracy?
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As for Mr Duterte, he must know the oligarchy might challenge him if they feel threatened.
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Or you do you finally have to say we are going to take on the oligarchy?
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The 2014 Maidan Revolution opened those gates, closed for centuries by empire, iron curtain, and oligarchy.
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The essence of oligarchy is that the billionaire class is never satisfied with what they have.
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But that isn't a democracy at all; it's a technocracy at best, an oligarchy at worst.
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After all, oligarchy does have an economic element to it; in fact, it is explicitly economic.
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The bureaucratic oligarchy drew the boundaries of acceptable politics; the politicians were to remain within them.
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One campaign is visibly under way within that part of Hong Kong that resembles an oligarchy.
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Loyalty is rewarded by institutionalized corruption, with the political elite creating and rewarding their own oligarchy.
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To explain Trump's support as a revolt against oligarchy, Lind has to accomplish a few things.
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It was how balance was maintained and the totalizing tendencies of oligarchy and democracy were stunted.
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As a country, we seem to be heavily tilted toward ultra conservative oligarchy and ever greater inequality.
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El Salvador had been ruled by the army and a coffee oligarchy for almost half a century.
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Instead of hitting small-time pharmacists and pensioners, let's hit the oligarchy, where we really need reform.
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No, America isn't an oligarchy in which both parties reliably serve the interests of the economic elite.
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Mr. Sanders's campaign is driven by an existential need to save our democracy from becoming an oligarchy.
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The city mostly observed the outward form of democracy but often felt more like a militarised oligarchy.
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When you target individual members of the government or the oligarchy you're ... what is the NYPD says?
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JOANNA Oligarchy: a government in which a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes.
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Mr. Robot and Tyrell Wellick rekindled their old oligarchy-smashing bond, with an assist from Phillip Price.
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The English people watched their country swiftly cycle through political chapters of tyranny, oligarchy, democracy, and aristocracy.
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Now I am a mature president, ready, experienced, with the balls to confront the oligarchy and imperialism.
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She described the EU as a monstrous "chimera" and an "anti-democratic oligarchy" that France needed to leave.
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It can claim that the balance of global power is shifting dangerously in favour of a new oligarchy.
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He quickly gained favor with the oligarchy by helping them structure monopolies and restricting licenses to their competitors.
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Most countries in the region are no longer controlled by a narrow oligarchy, nor under the yanqui thumb.
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Mr Maduro has dismissed the referendum as a plot by the "oligarchy" that now runs the National Assembly.
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Either we'll move toward oligarchy or millions of Americans will stand together for a government which represents all.
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Oligarchy it is, and so be it: This was a warped kind of Act of Union for Westeros.
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No wonder a 13 study found that America has effectively transformed into an oligarchy instead of a democracy.
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And when we talk about oligarchy, it is not just that the very rich are getting much richer.
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An oligarchy is a regime in which the rich have power and the poor are deprived of it.
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Those checks prevent oligarchy on the one hand and a tyranny founded on populist demagogy on the other.
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"There's no question to my mind that the United States is moving toward an oligarchy," Mr. Sanders said.
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Democracy versus oligarchy always meant the rule of the working people versus the rule of the rich people.
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We are living in a nation increasingly becoming an oligarchy, where you have millionaires buying elections and politicians.
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"As long as there's personal, professional and social competence with the right ideology, that's not oligarchy," he said.
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However, the Philippines is more of an oligarchy disguised as democracy, with elections largely a clash of political families.
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Some radicals argue that the government is now so rotten that America is condemned to perpetual oligarchy and inequality.
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One of their most striking findings is that, even on Wikipedia, the so-called "Iron Law of Oligarchy"—a.k.a.
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But we need all of those candidates and public officials to have the guts to stand up the oligarchy.
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" Pat chimes in: "We're left with a situation now where we can either have the oligarchy or a fascist.
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The promise of the 1986 revolution has turned into what Miguel Syjuco, a Filipino novelist, calls "a resurgent oligarchy".
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Sanders did so by remaining relentlessly on message, as he has been for years, about dismantling the American oligarchy.
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So when you have multibillionaires supporting other billionaires to be elected president, that is not democracy; that is oligarchy.
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The result is an oligarchy or a plutocracy, in which freedom exists only for those with wealth and power.
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Further efforts to punish the oligarchy that helps Putin control his country -- and meddle in others -- have been effective.
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These laboratories of oligarchy are a far cry from the democratic norms that Americans expect in their political system.
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"We are both interested in fighting against oligarchy and plutocracy, so this was great timing," Sanford told the Tribune.
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And he recently accused the Supreme Court of being an instrument of the oligarchy used to dominate the people.
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The Guatemalan state is notorious for being controlled by an anti-indigenous, sexist oligarchy, whose example infects the nation.
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"Oligarchy is nothing any of us want," Keon Gerow, a Philadelphia-based pastor and Clinton delegate, told me Tuesday night.
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This is a global epidemic caused by the failures of our governments to push back against the greed of oligarchy.
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They're as applicable to the Reagan culture wars Carpenter was responding to as the late-capitalist oligarchy people fear today.
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The fact that Ivanka Vacuuming has successfully annoyed America's First Oligarchy is enough to forgive some of this disappointing symbolism.
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But it's hard to imagine that one of our country's leading oligarchs sees the drift toward oligarchy as a problem.
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Then the Clintons could think of nothing but themselves and their own generational oligarchy, still calling back to the Sixties.
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Even Russia – governed by an oligarchy of Putin-aligned billionaires – has an interest in ensuring its financial networks are secure.
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"I would say the most serious threat to our democracy is making ourselves even more like an oligarchy," he said.
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"America ... used to be one of our finest democracies on Earth and as I said, it's become primarily an oligarchy."
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But we need all of those candidates and public officials to have the guts to stand up to the oligarchy.
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Economic oligarchy will be established in law, and any political check on the powers of business likely will be eviscerated.
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In "Capitalism in America," Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge find their inspiration for oligarchy and cutthroat capitalism in Ayn Rand.
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He once called his critics "mentally incapacitated" and tweeted "Welcome to the oligarchy" in response to former presidential candidate Sen.
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In such circles, the complexity of oligarchy and its Orwellian tentacles induces glazed eyes, if not learned helplessness by design.
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"I am the people's president, the oligarchy have under-estimated me," said Maduro, a former bus driver and union activist.
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And also a reminder that coffee-crops have served to create a global oligarchy that has no respect for farmers.
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"If oligarchy 1.0 tried to grab pieces of the economy from the state, and use them for themselves, then oligarchy 2.0 tries to build themselves into the state system, in order to gain access to state contracts and budget money," Ekaterina Schulmann, a political scientist and noted analyst of the Russian political system, explained.
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A bit on the nose, but I admit I need less subtlety in my anti-colonial, anti-oligarchy fiction these days.
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Capitalism is not an engine for warmongering exploitation (as Marxists believed), nor a static oligarchy, nor a high road to crisis.
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In other words, says Galloway, the spoils of America's old corporate oligarchy was carved out more fairly among many more workers.
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They will not be content until the entire Constitution is gutted, in complete devotion to the American oligarchy they truly represent.
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The "mercantile oligarchy" of the South feared that any state intervention would upend the racial caste structure of the old Confederacy.
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Meanwhile, Putin is trying to portray to the international community that Russia isn't the oligarchy it is frequently accused of being.
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But why buy one there when I can support my local (international) mom-and-pop (publicly traded) store (merchandising oligarchy) instead?
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The assembly, under opposition control since elections in December 2015, had been hijacked by an "oligarchy", he declared; "patriots" should defend it.
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Even when participants are "animated by good and right intentions", they too often end up in "forms of oligarchy" or "asymmetrical situations".
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The New Yorker on "Oligarchy 2.0" under Putin Axios on how a shipping deal links Wilbur Ross and Putin's son-in law
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How many victories could they expect to win against the coal barons and the oligarchy they'd established in the West Virginia hills?
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The situation feared by Aristotle and Harrington—the ascendance of an oligarchy devoted to its own interests—is now firmly in place.
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The resurgence of anti-republican measures in the laboratories of oligarchy, and the Roberts Court's unwillingness to intervene, cry out for alternatives.
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"This may be good for an oligarchy or dictatorship, but it is a serious — I'd say even fatal — blow to a democracy."
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None of the other forces that might have checked the rise of a corrupt homegrown oligarchy can stop or even slow it.
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Unfettered corporate power and the excessive influence of money in politics has created an illegitimate oligarchy pretending to be a democratic republic.
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An oligarchy of five banks manage the Brazilian market, and they're slow, have terrible customer service, high APR and don't serve SMBs.
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We have an elected oligarchy that sees us as a path to their enrichment and we are simply serfs with the vote.
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Indeed, despite oligarchy concerns, Mr. Goldman says he believes that Mr. Dangote's past success actually bodes well for the refinery and Nigeria.
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When he thinks about what the oligarchy has done to America, he tends to think of white men as the principal victims.
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A new workers' movement would also be a bulwark against the old Jeffersonian nightmare of rule by a self-perpetuating economic oligarchy.
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"Joker" and "Watchmen" have been praised for the innovative ways in which they use superhero narratives to confront oligarchy and white supremacy.
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Through proper procedures and permanent mobilization, they would continually sidestep the iron law of oligarchy and thus avoid turning into career politicians' playthings.
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For the in-person schmoozing politicians call "compromise," but which their constituents see as ripe ground for a sherry-drinking, old-boy oligarchy?
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Others argue that the elite is functionally an oligarchy that owes its rising income to a shift away from labor and toward capital.
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Were it easy for a group of Washington insiders to remove a president using the 25th Amendment, American democracy would swerve towards oligarchy.
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That makes it hard to stand out from the pack, but also presents an opportunity for whoever's vision of America's oligarchy cuts deepest.
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The rationing board, known by the Orwellian acronym NICE, is a health care oligarchy that decides which drugs the UK government will cover.
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It's only now that the amounts of sheer corruption and lawbreaking that underlie our march toward oligarchy have started to come into focus.
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Then I saw him forming alliances with the country's oligarchy, a grim reminder of the practices and the corruption he claimed to end.
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There is every reason to believe that women's college basketball's monarchy will similarly transition to an oligarchy, and then democratize further from there.
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A School Where the Student Body Is Obsessed With Student Bodies In Scarlett Thomas's new novel, "Oligarchy," the skinny girls rule the roost.
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It was intended to be a government of the people, by the people, for the people; instead we have devolved into an oligarchy.
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"I think the biggest thing that a lot of Americans don't realize is that we live in a functional oligarchy," Giridharadas told INSIDER.
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Nobody likes hearing that they should rein in their ambitions in the name of realism, especially when reality is creeping oligarchy and militarism.
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What is going on is not only this rise of authoritarianism but also, simultaneously, you are seeing this country move very rapidly toward oligarchy.
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"Affluent influence that results from partisan influence may be worrisome," the authors conclude, "but it is not the same as living in an oligarchy."
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Maybe it learned from Twitter, whose old one-size-fits-none suggested user list immediately made it noisy, impersonal and ruled by an oligarchy.
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Worries About Oligarchy and InequalityGwenn Hibbs of Bethesda, Md. I am very pessimistic, especially on behalf of the generation now coming out of college.
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He built his following through a shared sense that inequality, oligarchy, and income stagnation are moral failings of a corrupt or indifferent political system.
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Eventually, an oligarchy of star creators emerged who starred in and cross-promoted each other's Vines until they ruled the Popular and Comedy pages.
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All of this power and pomp and circumstance can go to their heads and can cause them to behave like an oligarchy of privilege.
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Of course, from the position of the Russian oligarchy, why rush to force drastic reforms on the industry when the main export is energy?
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Jeffrey Winters, a political scientist at Northwestern University who has written about global oligarchy, is a leading expert on Indonesia and the 1965 massacres.
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Does socialism merely substitute another form of domination, by a political oligarchy centered in the state, for that which it destroys in civil society?
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As for college football, these days it resembles more of an oligarchy, with only a few teams seemingly in position to win national championships.
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Just five years earlier, the city lost an almost three-decade war with its great rival, Sparta, and a harsh oligarchy had been imposed.
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Americans do not want an America that is an oligarchy dominated by the wealthy and the special-interest lobbyists and super-Pacs they finance.
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Simonton is a professor at Arizona State University, expert in ancient Greek oligarchies, and author of the book, Classical Greek Oligarchy: A Political History.
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He was viewed as a technocrat, but he merely replaced the old oligarchy with his own friends and relatives, including his glamorous wife, Imelda.
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The party that talks loudest about American exceptionalism has given us a cast of characters that would be perfectly unexceptional in any backwater oligarchy.
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Turning up unannounced at the Whirlpool factory gate on the outskirts, she claimed to be supporting "the workers" while Mr Macron was defending "the oligarchy".
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The battles take place within the regime elite and between the country's youthful public and the sclerotic oligarchy of senior clerics who dominate its institutions.
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Substitute the corporate oligarchy for the monarchy and the BBC for the Church and you have a reasonable description of the revolt of the Leavers.
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If only we could replace the forces of aristocracy, oligarchy, and corruption with a genuine meritocracy, then we would have a just and equal society.
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His ranking among American billionaires has fallen from a peak of 26 to 121—by the standards of the country's oligarchy, he is small beer.
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In these states and other laboratories of oligarchy, preserving conservative rule took priority over allowing the people's elected representatives to govern as the electorate wanted.
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In today's global contest between democracy and nationalist oligarchy, economic power is a critical element and, as a result, antitrust law is an essential tool.
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If there was ever a moment when we needed to stand up and fight against the forces of oligarchy and authoritarianism, this is that time.
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Somewhere in here is the kernel of a good book: Lind's original focus was oligarchy, and there is a way to end it, he says.
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"I think the biggest thing that a lot of Americans don't realize is that we live in a functional oligarchy," Giridharadas told Insider last year.
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"Oligarchy" is a study in obsessiveness pinned to a vague, whodunit structure we don't really need, with a couple of barely felt deaths thrown in.
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My name was linked to the oligarchy, I was educated, and I could speak foreign languages: I was therefore someone to be feared and tamed.
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Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy in this country.
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The logic is fairly simple: A society that's too unequal is susceptible to violent, redistributive revolution from the bottom and repressive oligarchy from the top.
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This world is dominated by an oligarchy of giants, including Facebook, Google, Amazon, Netflix and Disney (as well as Alibaba and Tencent within China's walled ecosystem).
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It's also why people in the new progressive foreign policy are very concerned about what I call the nationalist oligarchy, what other people call authoritarian capitalism.
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These men came to be known as the Russian oligarchy — and would later become crucial allies that helped Putin maintain, and expand, his hold on power.
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Someone who can tackle student debt, oligarchy, and the dangers to the middle class, while still operating in a framework that won't freak out your parents.
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It requires people like Bernie Sanders, who've been consistently saying the same thing and were right about it, in terms of the oligarchy and rising inequality.
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The state of the oligarchy: Despite Russia's economic woes, just three countries (the U.S., China and Germany) have more billionaires than Russia's 96, according to Forbes.
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He said it can quickly evolve into crony capitalism and then an oligarchy — a government controlled by a small group of wealthy business leaders and officials.
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" He went on to argue that capitalism can become unmoored from democratic values: "When you have capitalism without democracy, you get crony capitalism and eventually oligarchy.
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Many felt that Western ideas like liberalism, secularism and freedom of speech had been used cynically against them to maintain the power of a cultural oligarchy.
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While Sanders's fellow candidates didn't parrot his vocabulary and denounce "oligarchs" and "oligarchy," they spoke expansively about gross income inequality and the need to tackle it.
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They thought constitutional government was vital to the mediation of popular passions; it was the best way to balance the totalizing tendencies of oligarchy and democracy.
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Oligarchy, democracy, and tyranny, in that order, are said to be the worst forms of government, and they are defined more or less in modern terms.
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Oligarchy is the rule of the few, and these few have been understood since Aristotle's time to be men of wealth, property, nobility, what have you.
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The march to oligarchy would happen here: There was "no special providence for Americans, and their nature is the same with that of others," Adams warned.
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After Zverev won the ATP Finals in 2018, many thought he was likely to break through the oligarchy of the Big Three and win a major.
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Nor is it clear, postelection, whether the threat is an incipient oligarchy or an incipient populist autocracy; our new president tweets from one to the other.
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The rich and the powerful have sullied the word "socialism," as our country has become an oligarchy that resembles the robber-baron era in many ways.
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The stakes in this election are extremely high and will determine whether the United States will move further right toward an oligarchy or left toward greater democracy.
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I think it is fair to say we are moving toward oligarchy, where we have an economy and a political system controlled by few incredibly wealthy people.
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"Bulgarian oligarchy is preparing to hold another election in which to reload the corruption model," 42-year-old Ivanov, who was unanimously elected Yes Bulgaria's chairman, said.
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Storming onto the floor, Lexie starts ranting about how awful Harry is, and how Allie has basically created some sort of oligarchy between herself and the Guards.
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The nation is either a swamp of corruption and crime or an oligarchy, its leader either an authoritarian and a liar or else besieged by treasonous forces.
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She is convinced an "economic war" is to blame for her hardships, repeating Maduro's accusations that a cunning oligarchy is seeking to sabotage socialism in Latin America.
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But Obama's presidency helped set the trends for Donald Trump to amplify, with relative impunity, the oligarchy and corruption that has come to embody the federal government.
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This premise is now deeply ingrained in the American popular imagination and it has motivated a political movement seeking to restrict democratic participation and create an oligarchy.
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On the other hand, in opposition to oligarchy, there is a movement of working people and young people who, in ever-increasing numbers, are fighting for justice.
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But if "identity politics" means promoting black and female candidates who don't have "the guts to take on the oligarchy," Sanders argued, it's largely beside the point.
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Arena was founded in 1981 by Roberto d'Aubuisson, whose calls for the extermination of Communists by death squads were embraced by the country's oligarchy and far right.
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Are we prepared to take on the enormous economic and political power of the billionaire class, or do we continue to slide into economic and political oligarchy?
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On the other hand, in opposition to oligarchy, there is a movement of working people and young people who, in ever increasing numbers, are fighting for justice.
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Vargas Llosa's call to reduce state subsidies terrified many of these citizens, as did his connections to the rich, white elite that dominated Peru like an oligarchy.
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The country's system of "consociational democracy," which was supposed to maintain balance among its various religious communities, has over the years turned it into a quasi-oligarchy.
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At the beginning of his speech at George Washington, Sanders took note of the "growing movement toward oligarchy" in the United States and the world at large.
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By the mid-2010s, Mr. Erdogan had become so powerful that he broke the old pattern of contestation and negotiation between the bureaucratic oligarchy and elected politicians.
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A transnational oligarchy has arisen, with secretive business partnerships tying, for instance, Wilbur Ross, Mr. Trump's commerce secretary, to the family of President Vladimir Putin of Russia.
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But, with American acquiescence, the legislature was monopolized by a small group of élite landowners, bolstering the power of an oligarchy that continues to dominate political life.
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At the same time, it is their attempt to rectify what is seen as the increasingly tyrannical and dysfunctional nuclear oligarchy upheld by the nuclear-armed states.
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If these are the conditions of international relations, then the aim of American foreign policy should be to stand against this rising tide of illiberalism and oligarchy.
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Most empires fail within before they fail to external enemies, and unless we reverse this war on the working class by our oligarchy, our empire will fail too.
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He has become increasingly imperious and authoritarian, presenting himself in rallies and speeches as the only safeguard against right-wing radicals who want to re-establish an oligarchy.
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The Iron Throne dissolved (literally), giving way to Westeros' first oligarchy, and the Starks split up (by choice this time) to explore the world and keep the peace.
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The Iron Heel is supremely cynical about institutions like newspapers and the church, which are at best bourgeois cover for the oligarchy, but it's unflaggingly confident in individuals.
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We need more African Americans," while adding that we also "need all of those candidates and public officials to have the guts to stand up to the oligarchy.
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Now they should acknowledge that the "people power" revolution in 1986 that unseated Marcos, and put Mr Aquino's mother in power, has ossified into a self-selecting oligarchy.
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But if you're one of the many who are convinced that our system is effectively an oligarchy, why play in an electoral game you think has been rigged?
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And even if it does prove complementary with the material demands of democracy, is it the only or the best way to rescue our democratic republic from oligarchy?
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Beyond that, our trend toward oligarchy — rule by the few — is also looking more and more like kakistocracy — rule by the worst, or at least the most unscrupulous.
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Mr. Nikolaev, 20123, maintains a low profile in the Russian oligarchy, but he was thrown into the spotlight when his name surfaced in connection with the Butina case.
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I think the end point will be a growing realization that the emperor Vladimir Putin and his corrupt oligarchy network around him, that they really were not close.
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Those reforms brought in many young Ukrainians, who were supported by the local population, which saw them as a chance to get rid of the post-Soviet oligarchy.
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Sanders's event, titled "Inequality in America: The Rise of Oligarchy and Collapse of the Middle Class," was streamed live on Monday and drew 1.7 million viewers, HuffPost reported.
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Trump's continued attacks on the media — and on truth itself — is an attempt to weaken the watchdogs, to grease the skids toward more oligarchy, more authoritarianism, more fascism.
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Oligarchy is a very real issue, and I was writing about the damaging rise of the 1 percent back when many of today's Sanders supporters were in elementary school.
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"My greatest fear about the future of out country and in fact the world, is that we are moving radically and rapidly in the direction of oligarchy," Sanders said.
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So I think this is an anti-oligarchy critique: by allowing these kinds of philanthropic donations, are we setting up an oligarchic structure that exists alongside our democratic structures?
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In 73 B.C.E., a prisoner of war forced to join a gladiator school named Spartacus led a rebellion with seventy other gladiators against the slave-owning oligarchy of Rome.
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Out of politeness, Trump should not refer to judges as "so-called judges" — but he should be praised, not criticized, for taking on the judicial oligarchy in this country.
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After a period of mergers and consolidations in the industry, today just three PBMs control 28503 of the prescription benefit market, a healthcare oligarchy if there ever was one.
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Ukrainians will vote in a country divided between east and west, between corruption and a desire for honest government, between struggling, ordinary people and an ultra-wealthy business oligarchy.
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This law wouldn't pass muster by contemporary standards (it allowed only one in five adult males to vote), but it tackled the most corrupt practices of the old oligarchy.
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Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy that we are seeing in this country.
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We are on a slippery slope where gerrymandering, voter suppression and above all, limitless dark money in elections, has placed our country in the hands of a powerful ruling oligarchy.
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He urged attendees to vote 'yes' in the referendum, warning that if he lost, the opposition would sell the country's resources to the highest bidder and govern like an oligarchy.
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His appointees may not entrench a permanent oligarchy, but it could still—for millions of people in America—reduce the willingness and ability to participate in public life to zero.
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Russia is widely thought of as an oligarchy run by President Vladimir Putin and a handful of billionaire cronies whose main accomplishment is looking out for their own financial interests.
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All of us recognize that our government, dominated by an oligarchy, is severely broken — but we need to select leaders who will educate and empower us to fix it ourselves.
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His goal is to create a "we the people" and mobilize them to take on the oligarchy (or as he prefers to call them in stump speeches, "millionaires and billionaires").
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The speech on Wednesday at George Washington University will address how "democratic socialism is the only way to defeat oligarchy and authoritarianism," according to a press release from his campaign.
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Setting aside the "exculpatory no" reflexively spouted by these persons, many questions remain about what influence Russia's oligarchy — a system beholden to Russian leader Vladimir Putin — had over which Americans.
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It's not about values, although Sanders and those around him have a bad habit of suggesting that anyone who questions their political strategy is a corrupt tool of the oligarchy.
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She has replaced an oligarchy with an absolute monarchy, one with a judicial system defined by a lack of due process and disproportionate sentencing, as Hizdahr zo Loraq points out.
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Lind's originating interest seems to be this: American democracy worked in a certain way in the three decades after World War II, it stopped working that way, and oligarchy ensued.
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OLIGARCHY By Scarlett Thomas Fat is fat, to the boarding-school girls in the English writer Scarlett Thomas's new novel, but fat is also a flag of pathos and victimhood.
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To his fear that inequality fuels demagogy should be added another concern: A society with an oligarchic concentration of wealth is likely to function as a political oligarchy as well.
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His appointees may not entrench a permanent oligarchy, but it could still — for millions of people in America — reduce the willingness and ability to participate in public life to zero.
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But even as this oligarchy was being forged by Margaret Thatcher and given a face-lift by Tony Blair and David Cameron, a parallel left-wing establishment was in the making.
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Mr Putin's ruling United Russia is increasingly seen as a party of "crooks and thieves", as Mr Navalny calls it, acting in the interest of the nomenklatura and the business oligarchy.
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Ukraine is torn between a corrupt oligarchy and a nascent reform movement; between a moribund post-Soviet economy and the promise of farm exports and computing services for the European market.
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The situation most feared by Aristotle and other philosophers of the republican tradition—the ascendance of an oligarchy devoted mainly or solely to its own interests—is now firmly in place.
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To continue business as usual in light of this revelation would be to move the needle of democracy yet another step away from the ideals of our Constitution and toward oligarchy.
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The Kochs, along with the right wing of the American oligarchy they represent, have advanced two fundamental ideas about liberty over the years, both of which violate basic civic republican principles.
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The activists camping out in lower Manhattan—and, eventually, dozens of cities across the country and the world—to protest income inequality and rampant oligarchy were dirty hippies, the haters said.
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If we all do this, perhaps we can change our country, even in the face of entrenched power, the oligarchy of billionaires, the fear and hatred of those who feel powerless.
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That shock therapy created a new oligarchy, led to negative income growth for the bottom half of the population, fostered a general discontent with democracy and produced a drift toward authoritarianism.
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The history of the Turkish republic can be seen as a struggle between two counteracting forces: the politicians versus the bureaucratic oligarchy, composed of senior civil servants, military generals and judges.
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In contrast, the so-called populist parties — who in reality serve the narrow interests of an ego-driven, nationalistic oligarchy, as opposed to the masses — fight a war against European integration.
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Originally when these terms developed in the fifth century BC in Greece, you had the rule of few, which is the oligarchy, and democracy, which is the power of the people.
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As the socialist state with its moribund economy was dismantled, a new oligarchy emerged from party institutions, planning bureaus and centers of science and technology and assumed ownership of Russia's riches.
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The privileged teenage girls in "Oligarchy," attending a dysfunctional, third-string boarding school in the countryside north of London, get caught up in a mass-psychogenic, contagious version of anorexia nervosa.
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In "Oligarchy" it's almost as though the flab that comes to rest on bodies, permitted to settle there only because weak minds are powerless against it, possesses independent life and will.
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In the 90s, pop music was kind of an oligarchy, with just a few stars, but now with social media and niche fanbases it's kinda like anyone can be a star.
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Ridin' High facilitates a conversation about bodies and power when women's reproductive rights are under intense scrutiny, and when our economic and political systems more closely resemble an oligarchy than a democracy.
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It might just be a symptom of, and backlash against, a global trend of neoliberalism-morphing-toward-antidemocratic-oligarchy, which, sadly, is the recent economic / political history of much of the world.
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Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, two economists, argue in favour of Ms Ocasio-Cortez's tax plan on the grounds that shrinking top incomes is necessary to prevent America from sliding into oligarchy.
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Can the same audience that cheers Sanders's denunciation of the American oligarchy be expected to respect the presence on Wednesday before the DNC of a figure of the likes of Michael Bloomberg?
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Everyone always compares (Trump) to a fascist strongman, but I don't think that that's far off, ... with his family and his businesses and stuff, he wants to replicate Russian oligarchy in America.
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Bulgaria is a "failure, the government is corrupt, and you have an oligarchy ruling the country," says Iliana Savova, the director of the Refugee and Migrant Program for the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee.
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"Today we stand on Indonesian land, on land seized and corrupted by the oligarchy," he bellowed through a sound system on a recent afternoon, standing on the bed of a pickup truck.
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The main obstacle has been the Cuban military, which has long exercised monopoly control over large segments of the economy, creating an oligarchy in uniform that is reluctant to spread the wealth.
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Sadly, futuristic ideals must temporarily take a back seat to reunifying this country as a constitutional democracy, not allowing an oligarchy to dismember the Constitution and years of social and environmental progress.
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He may pitch himself to centrists as an answer to the populists, but in leveraging his fortune to fight them, he offers the country the (hopefully) false choice between populism and oligarchy.
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If, however, they rally around him, it will be a message to every other billionaire who holds political ambitions, and America will be well on its way to becoming a true oligarchy.
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" Sanders warned that the nation could turn into an oligarchy, where a handful of the wealthy control the government, saying "a handful of billionaires are attempting to buy the United States government.
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While he called for a movement to "combat the forces of global oligarchy and authoritarianism," the details of how a Sanders administration would use American power to do that have been vague.
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That makes a radical change in the college's economic instruction important not just at Harvard but in the world that, under the rules of American oligarchy, Harvard graduates are entrusted to manage.
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Riffing on Michels's "iron law of oligarchy," which holds that all democratic institutions will end up being run by an internal elite, Hayes proposes what he calls the iron law of meritocracy.
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It's hosted Fat Bear Week, a weeklong online poll in October, every year since 2015 "to determine which gluttonous giant sits atop the brown bear oligarchy of obesity," according to a press release.
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In 2014, a Princeton study by Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page found that the United States is an oligarchy, not a democracy, with policy driven by the economic elite and business interests.
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In February Mr Maduro stated the need to tell the story of Hugo Chávez on screen, to counter the "distortion and manipulation…on the part of the television networks of the international oligarchy".
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Amid such extreme imbalances, Sitaraman argues, we are now faced with a choice—to accept our current state of oligarchy, or to attempt to restore the equality on which the republic was founded.
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Consider that in his disastrous press conference in Helsinki Monday -- and again in a comment before a Cabinet meeting Wednesday -- President Donald Trump sided with a hostile foreign oligarchy over our own democracy.
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What these representative structures never resolved was the question of how much economic inequality was necessary to make the system work and how much might flip it into oligarchy, threatening its very foundations.
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Few of the candidates were as explicit as Bloomberg announcing that China's "stealing of intellectual property" was a priority his administration would address, in terms of orienting their message solely to the oligarchy.
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" During last week's debate in Las Vegas, Sanders said during his closing remarks that "real change never takes place from the top on down, never takes place from an oligarchy controlled by billionaires.
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When I contemplate the sort of illiberal oligarchy that would await my children should Donald Trump win another term, the scale of the loss feels so vast that I can barely process it.
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" Jeffrey Winters, a political-science professor at Northwestern University and the author of the 2011 book "Oligarchy," regards attacks on the Justice Department by ultra-wealthy players with vested interests as "very worrisome.
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Both of these stories perfectly tell you the obsessions of the political elite bad faith blame games masked as a real struggle over who gets to pull the levers of our American oligarchy.
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"Hillary Clinton will nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are prepared to overturn Citizens United and end the movement toward oligarchy in this country," he said in July at the Democratic National Convention.
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Participants at our event were voicing concerns as well as enthusiasms — and smart ones at that — about cybersecurity and the environment, about safety and public space, about the sharing economy and an incipient oligarchy.
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The oversight board must bring to account the local oligarchy and big businesses that, together with their captive local government, have bankrupted a U.S. territory, delivering tragedy and hardship to my fellow Puerto Ricans.
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It is shocking when examined more deeply and while also taken with the prolific, profuse and systemic anti-Semitism that exists throughout the government of Armenia, that nation's oligarchy and even its general populace.
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Trump reminds the tens of thousands flocking to his rallies of their disillusionment with the intellectual elites, the long-standing oligarchy in Washington, and the special interests at the end of the gravy train.
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Now hundreds of thousands of them are refugees, flowing into areas like Iraqi Kurdistan, where they are met with suspicion and where memories of abuses under Saddam Hussein's Sunni Arab oligarchy are still fresh.
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It's a country in which every nearly every economic sector trends toward monopoly and oligarchy, and in which regulators let companies call the shots — see the F.A.A. and Boeing or the F.T.C. and Google.
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Based on selection by lottery—which Aristotle regarded as real democracy, in contrast to election, which he described as "oligarchy"—it was trialled in 2017 and won enthusiastic reviews from participants, officials and locals.
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In a provocative August, 2015, column in the Orange County Register, Kotkin wrote: The disruptive force is largely Silicon Valley, a natural oligarchy that now funds a party teetering toward populism and even socialism.
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Bernie is an existential threat to business as usual and both parties ability to cash in as perpetual winners in the oligarchy-and they'll use every means, fair and unfair, to protect their position.
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Of course, Canadians living in rural areas and in the territories weren't the only people upset about their internet in a country more or less dominated by an oligarchy of three major telecom providers.
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During the Art Strike and in the months before and after, artists argued that trustees exploited their positions on museum boards to distract from their involvement in an oligarchy that perpetrated the Vietnam War.
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All posed as saviours of "the people" and railed against "the oligarchy" or "imperialism", in terms analogous to the political insurgencies of Mr Trump and Nigel Farage of Britain's UK Independence Party against the "establishment".
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An organization calling itself the Revolutionary Self-defense Group said it attacked the party's offices in 2014, as part of a move against "the state oligarchy, the dictatorship of the capital and its armed guards".
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Equally alarming is that Mr. Orban's truculence could become a blueprint for the European Union's self-destruction: a government that derides union governance while taking its money to enrich an oligarchy and entrench populist nationalism.
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The deep state is real and its target is not just President Trump but the American people, as it seeks entrenched control of our systems and more resembles an oligarchy that wants to control society.
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We have heard from scores of talented officials who took a pass after watching how outsiders are treated by the existing team — and witnessing the far reach of Steve Bannon and the White House oligarchy.
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Making such a coalition constructive rather than just disruptive may be impossible, but it's the only way he sees to escape neoliberal oligarchy and bring our class war to an end with a negotiated peace.
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Even in the early 21st century, a growing number of people realized that America was becoming an oligarchy, with a hugely disproportionate share of income, wealth and power held by a small number of people.
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As in Russia, the sudden formation of a new oligarchy in China means that there are many super-rich people who are unfamiliar with the ways in which more entrenched aristocracies quietly protect their wealth.
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Leading political scientists have declared that the U.S. is no longer best characterized as a democracy or a republic but as an oligarchy—a government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
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The usual concern about this march toward oligarchy is that the interests and policy preferences of the very rich are quite different from those of the population at large, and that is surely the biggest problem.
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For example, Jack London wrote The Iron Heel (1908), musing on a future United States where democracy had turned to oligarchy, and Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court involved time travel.
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It could equally be used by a fintech firm, however, that wanted to disrupt the oligarchy that exists in many national banking markets that have come to be dominated by a small number of massive institutions.
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Equally impossible to ignore is the reality that Trump has surrounded himself with Russophiles with deep and lucrative financial ties to the Russian oligarchy and, by extension, to Putin himself — the maker and destroyer of oligarchs.
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I fairly often find myself talking with people who see either the nation as a whole or at least the right side of the political spectrum as a pure oligarchy, where the big money controls everything.
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And this becomes very tricky, in part because Trump is less a refuge from oligarchy than the most oligarchic oligarch around, and in part because Lind's thesis that "economic anxiety" drove Trump's supporters is not convincing.
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Aristotle's six-fold classification of political regimes from monarchy to aristocracy to polity to democracy to oligarchy to tyranny is in effect a theory of revolution, of regime changes from good to bad and back again.
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Indeed, Grasso's footage of this dazzling room of ornamental splendor reminded me of how French Rococo Régence style has become the gold standard for the look of oligarchy, assaulting the viewer with its elaborate, glittering unreality.
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So is it any real surprise if amoral American oligarchs look at Russia's racist oligarchy and think, "Hey, those are my kind of people," closely followed by, "Jeez, that kind of government seems pretty good to me"?
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Wellington Wells' repressive oligarchy runs the town from a handful of brutalist monoliths, but the most common threat is random citizens who will spontaneously attack you for things like wearing the wrong clothes in the wrong district.
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"It will tell people what I have been saying for a long time, is that this country is moving away from democracy to oligarchy; that billionaires are the people who are controlling our political life," Sanders said.
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Grover Cleveland, then president, decried the new government of white businessmen, sugar barons and lawyers as an "oligarchy" responsible for "a lawless occupation," although this didn't prevent the next president, William McKinley, from supporting annexation in 1898.
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Class is back, but its meanings range from anti-oligarchy to racially coded just-folks nationalism, and it is cross-cut by race, gender, and migration in ways that earlier generations found much too easy to minimize.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's suggestion on 60 Minutes of a 70 percent top marginal tax rate for Americans earning over $10 million has people thinking again about what America could look like rather the oligarchy it currently is.
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It can all seem so hopeless, this Sanders-against-the-world effort: not just trade agreements but capitalism, not just Joe Biden but the entire Democratic establishment, not just Donald Trump but the oligarchy that created him.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It has been a tumultuous year politically in the United States, which feels like it has already slid into oligarchy with an executive administration that looks to cement the nation there.
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That promise would evaporate abruptly in 2017, when the most potent oligarchy in American sports would have its power structure shaken, and arrive at the end of the season wondering: Was 2017 an anomaly or the future?
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In statehouses and city halls across the country, the only thing standing between an oligarchy and a true republic is often a local newspaper reporter working on an ancient laptop to shore up the bulwark of truth.
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But as more becomes known about the unusual identities and priorities of the party members, the worry is that Britain is now in the grip of something combining the worst aspects of both oligarchy and representative democracy.
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It may have been written before 431 B.C.E., when war broke out between Athens and Sparta, and certainly before 404, when the victorious Spartans imposed an oligarchy on Athens, tore down its walls and dismantled its alliance.
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One possibility is the rise of "nationalist oligarchy," where politicians like Trump, Vladimir Putin and Hungary's Victor Orban exploit racial and cultural divides to motivate their base while pushing economic policies that enrich themselves and their friends.
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Employing family members "bears witness to a culture of caste or oligarchy that makes it absolutely natural for politicians to profit to the maximum from political power," said Jean Garrigues, a leading historian of France's political culture.
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Yet the California Democrat's language, approach and proposals have a distinctly different tone than, say, that of Mr. Sanders, and she has not focused her campaign so far on attacking the wealthy or warning about an oligarchy.
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We descend from people who won a revolution against great odds, survived a brutal civil war, defied an oligarchy to free millions of slaves, and helped to save the world from the twin threats of Nazism and Communism.
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The "so-called" Commission on Presidential Debates, an official-sounding but nongovernmental entity, founded by the then-chairs of the two major parties, operates as a private oligarchy of the two parties to control access to the debates.
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"The political aim of the Revolutionary Self-defense Group in all three armed interventions was clear: attacking the state oligarchy, the dictatorship of the capital and its armed guards," the group said, warning of more attacks against police.
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It is the expansion and radicalization of small-d democracy, which they believe must be used to fight the power of entrenched oligarchy—a power, embodied by people like Trump, that liberalism has utterly failed to deal with.
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Pair this regularly occurring frustration with the knowledge that the country's mobile industry is dominated by an oligarchy made up of three major providers—Bell Canada, Telus, and Rogers—and you've got yourself some angry hosers there b'ye.
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Progressive foreign-policy types like Sanders and Warren, then, want to change the global economic model to make everyday life better for working-class people, which they believe will in turn curb the rise of dictatorship and oligarchy.
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The left acknowledges an essential economic role for capitalism — at least for the time being — but also sees it as a fundamental danger to freedom, a constant push away from democracy and toward an oligarchy of the wealthy.
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The explosion of big money in politics — triggered in large part by Supreme Court decisions, such as Citizens United, that threw out hard-won campaign finance reforms — threatens to move our country from a democracy to an oligarchy.
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Yet many Americans consider their votes to be meaningless, because they see the major parties as members of the same corporate oligarchy or as big-government enemies of individual freedoms, or the candidates as generic self-serving politicians.
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For decades, Jewel's Catch One seemed to stand alone—that is, until it the mid-90s, when it discovered a strange bedfellow in Das Bunker, an emerging industrial club night seeking a similar escape from the Hollywood club oligarchy.
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It's a conclusion that might ring all too familiar to Democrats who saw many disillusioned voters sit out the election in 2016, disappointed that the top of the Democratic ticket didn't present a genuine alternative to oligarchy as usual.
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We're keenly suspicious of big corporations — just look at how many voters thrilled to Bernie Sanders's jeremiads about a corrupt oligarchy, or at polls that show a growing antipathy to capitalism — and yet we're ever more reliant on them.
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Winters, the author of the book "Oligarchy," pointed out that China is one of a small number of countries—Russia is the other notable example—where extreme wealth stratification was eliminated in a Communist revolution and then later reëmerged.
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"Harris' biggest vulnerability is her inability to speak authentically and convincingly on populist themes like taking on America's oligarchy and billionaire class," tweeted Waleed Shahid, the communications director of Justice Democrats, the group that helped power Ocasio-Cortez's campaign.
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So unless we come home from our slob-jobs, open our almanacs, and start researching, there's no way the individual citizen can outpace the media-machine, which, he asserts, is constructed so as to reinforce our present oligarchy, a.k.a.
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There are a lot of important questions to talk about, including: How do we stop the movement toward oligarchy in our country in which the economic and political life of the United States is increasingly controlled by a handful of billionaires?
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I think the idea of parallel interest is key here, that the Russian intelligence service, once they saw what Trump was doing, quickly latched on in order to push their own agenda, which was very similar to the Russian oligarchy agenda.
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I know several classical liberals who are so furious with the global oligarchy (the people who run the global companies and dominate global institutions) and the damage they have done to liberalism that they have embraced either Trump or Brexit.
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In other words, just because the national conversation has hinged on identity, hate, and terrorism of late—largely thanks to the messaging of Donald Trump and his Republican Party—doesn't mean there's no time left to go after entrenched oligarchy.
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And essentially, if we have no estate tax and no tax on capital gains until realized, and step-up basis on inheritances, we're going to have a small group of people who are just sort of the permanent oligarchy class, forever.
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For Sanders, an America run by Donald Trump could become a complete oligarchy, which means, by the way, a government in which power is in the hands of a small, select group of people who serve their own selfish interests.
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Unbidden, many Iowa Democrats describe a tussle between their heads, which tell them that pragmatic, centrist Mrs Clinton offers their best shot at beating the Republicans, and their hearts, which sing when Mr Sanders growls that America is a corrupt oligarchy.
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By all indications, the Trump administration will be a mix of the worst parts of the Republican establishment wing and the right's anti-establishment wing, promising four years of increased oligarchy, decreased civil liberties, and global and domestic discord and chaos.
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In just 18 years it has helped Alphabet/Google (the parent company of YouTube) create a $495 billion dollar oligarchy, doing so on the backs of artists who create the professional content that make Google the technological monolith it is today.
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Bernie Sanders, in a speech titled "Breaking Up the Oligarchy," railed against the outsize -- and growing -- influence of the billionaire class in American politics, spicing up his usual fare with some sharp words on racial inequality in the criminal justice system.
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This exhibition by and large imagines that the antidote to our current situation of living in an oligarchy, where "a small ruling class dominates the political system to the exclusion of all others," is fuller and wider participation of non-elites.
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The potential for new sanctions based on Kremlin ties, long important for survival and success in business in Russia, has the oligarchy on tenterhooks, said Alexey Makarkin, vice president of the Center for Political Technologies, a research institute in Moscow.
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Sanders is telling voters that America has become a sort of oligarchy in which affluent citizens exploit poorer ones, and while many voters aren't lining up to have a beer with him, they're thirsty for — and sated by — that narrative.
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DON'T: Build your personal brand around conspicuous consumption in a cultural moment when the political administration that employs your husband and supposedly represents the interests of the struggling Everyman is actively trying to distance itself from a hostile foreign oligarchy.
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"And when he got going on economic reform, it turned out that he didn't know what he was doing," he adds, pointing to Mr Yeltsin's record of galloping inflation, a sovereign default and robber-baron privatisation which created the oligarchy.
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It's as good a time as any, then, as so many look out on an economic landscape that threatens to leave them futureless, for candidates to push left and argue forcefully for bringing the walls of American racism and oligarchy crashing down.
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Something like that was probably inevitable in a campaign whose premise is that everything is rigged by the oligarchy, but it interacts with the vague perception, the product of all those years of right-wing smearing, that there's a lot of Clinton dirt.
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PDVSA "has knocked down the doomsday voices that were betting on economic meltdown and attacking the Venezuelan people, in conspiracy with the global economic oligarchy, with the aim of destabilizing and sabotaging the Bolivarian government's economic advances," PDVSA said in a statement.
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Series creator Sam Esmail's conceit felt timely when the series made its debut in 2015, tapping into the intrusiveness of technology, the fear of terrorism, and the idea of a corporate oligarchy whose influence made even talk about the "one percent" seem quaint.
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand spoke on women; Senator Cory Booker, an appealing if slightly plaintive talent, on inequality; Senator Bernie Sanders was supposed to speak on criminal justice, but reprised his stump speech on the "oligarchy in this country, whose greed is insatiable".
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KIEV (Reuters) - The rapid rise of a former provincial mayor to become Ukraine's youngest ever prime minister has stirred fears that the very system of clannish oligarchy that the 2014 Maidan street protests were meant to dismantle is still alive and well.
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"We are the most censored, smeared, and no-platformed startup in history, which means we are a threat to the media and to the Silicon Valley Oligarchy," reads a statement from Torba on the landing page of the now defunct Gab website.
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On one hand, there is a growing movement towards oligarchy and authoritarianism in which a small number of incredibly wealthy and powerful billionaires own and control a significant part of the economy and exert enormous influence over the political life of our country.
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Today, America and the world are once again moving towards authoritarianism — and the same right-wing forces of oligarchy, corporatism, nationalism, racism and xenophobia are on the march, pushing us to make the apocalyptically wrong choice that Europe made in the last century.
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As the world's oligarchy gathered last week in Davos, Switzerland, to worry about the troubles of the middle class, the real question on every plutocrat's mind was whether the populist upheaval that delivered the presidency to the intemperate mogul might mercifully be over.
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Though the Maidan movement cleared the way for the election of the current Ukrainian government, led by the tycoon Petro Poroshenko, the reformers within it face fierce resistance from the beneficiaries of corruption and oligarchy, some of whom are in the cabinet.
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I'd say Bloomberg is a lot like an anonymous author we call "The Old Oligarch," who wrote a pamphlet in favor of oligarchy in the later fifth century BC. He lived under the Athenian democracy but was definitely not a fan of it.
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Romanians acknowledge continuing problems with corruption and oligarchy — after all, the man once considered to be the most powerful politician in the country, Liviu Dragnea, the head of the largest party, the Social Democrats, is serving a prison term for abuse of power.
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He offers a simple promise — to distribute fairly to everyone the riches now monopolised by a corrupt oligarchy, all delivered in a language to the liking of a young generation turned off by the staid style of a government dominated by securocrats.
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To combat the normalization of Trump and all he and his administration represent — white supremacy, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, militarism, and oligarchy — magazines, museums, universities, theaters, and businesses around the country will shut down so that workers can take action as they see fit.
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It's instructive to see the concept of oligarchy enshrined in a 14th-century fresco in Siena, Italy, or to learn how the Athenian reformer Cleisthenes's ideas for the organization of civic space facilitated mingling that would foster a sense of the common good.
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Never mind his long service to the cause of covering the uninsured (and his declaration that he'll support either candidate in the general): his carefully laid-out explanation of his support for Hillary Clinton's incremental approach means that he's a corrupt tool of the oligarchy.
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And taking the billionaire express lane into presidential politics, just a few years after Donald Trump did the same thing, would be further proof to Americans that they live in an unrepresentative oligarchy and the socialists arguing the entire system is rotten have a point.
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How do you remain in the sensible centre while leading a revolution against Britain's new oligarchy, the clique of second-rate people in both the public and private sectors who have got rich by sitting on each other's boards and marking each other's homework?
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The alt-right movement is now on the defensive, accused of being overly sympathetic to far-fight European parties that now appear to be on the decline, and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin, who is a form of alt-right dictator practicing crony capitalism by oligarchy.
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The unusually equitable economic growth in this period led many to conclude prematurely that the "mixed economy" of corporate capitalism, strong labor unions, Keynesian macro-management of markets by the government, and a modest welfare state had put the threat of oligarchy on ice.
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He continues: On one hand, there is a growing movement towards oligarchy and authoritarianism in which a small number of incredibly wealthy and powerful billionaires own and control a significant part of the economy and exert enormous influence over the political life of our country.
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The second, third, and fourth scenarios require that we accept the assumption that the reformist faction and the Iranian people (overwhelming majority of whom strongly oppose the regime) will submit to the continuation of rule by the most extremist faction of the fundamentalist oligarchy.
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Across the globe, the movement toward oligarchy runs parallel to the growth of authoritarian regimes – like Putin in Russia, Xi in China, Mohamed Bin Salman in Saudi Arabia, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, and Viktor Orbán in Hungary among others.
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Another challenge that we and the entire world face is growing wealth and income inequality, and the movement toward international oligarchy — a system in which a small number of billionaires and corporate interests have control over our economic life, our political life, and our media.
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As an example of his proximity to power, analysts of the oligarchy have pointed out that he is married to the step-granddaughter of the late former Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin; Mr. Deripaska has played down the tie as irrelevant to his business activities.
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Finland has a technologically literate, hardworking, and well-educated workforce, with little corruption, low levels of government debt, and no home-grown oligarchy—in other words, none of the factors that are sometimes seen as the source of problems for the troubled Southern European economies.
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Just as these and other nations learned from the experience of the United States in establishing their constitutional and judicial systems, so, too, should our country take a page from those that have successfully ensured their top legal officials do not become a superannuated oligarchy.
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Imposing these types of sanctions will also be used as a part of the narrative of the government to blame the "imperialism" and the "global oligarchy" for all of the country's woes, perhaps enlarging their political base through a speech of fear and hatred.
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It is entirely possible that eight years from now we'll be looking at an entrenched kleptocracy preparing to install a chosen successor whose only real mission is to preserve the web of parasitical oligarchy that has replaced the federal government as we know it.
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In a country where forgetfulness and forgiveness are interchangeable and there is collective mental bias for the immediate present than the distant past, Marcos' blitzkrieg campaign of "historical revisionism" has proven increasingly effective, especially among the youth and those who are critical of the Philippines' oligarchy.
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Conservatism flourishes when you have a broad middle class with roots in the country (and the countryside), not when you have a global oligarchy which treats the world as a shopping mall (Eton for secondary school, Yale for university and a chalet in the Alps for skiing).
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Because the IOC wanted to choke out the free market and embolden the oligarchy, they have officially banned the use of any non-official (non NBC, BBC, etc.) Olympic video or even GIFs, which normally bypass intellectual property laws by way of their 'creative looping interpretation.
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The trio, who make up tennis's immovable oligarchy having won the last 24 Grand Slams and 53 between them, have dropped three sets in total in the opening four rounds and Djokovic is at a loss to explain why the younger generation cannot get a look in.
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There are big differences between ancient and modern oligarchy and democracy, but one of the things that connects them is the belief on the part of oligarchs that political candidates have to be qualified somehow by what is, in the end, a de facto property requirement.
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The midday radio show hosted by the president airs daily on the government-run station and will pay homage to the country's cultural heritage and the essence of "a people that the oligarchy will never manage to decode or understand," Mr. Maduro explained during the inaugural broadcast.
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The numb-skulled, hand-wringing white oligarchy that run the sport and our country happen to have equated those protests—which symbolically happen during the anthem to acknowledge that our nation is indeed sick with racism and that people hope better for it—with anti-patriotism.
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Conversely, Sanders's supporters see a democracy slipping into oligarchy, a country that has utterly failed to keep pace with its global peers on social structure issues — economic equality, taxation, health care and education — and has gone completely off the rails on many others, like criminal justice and mass incarceration.
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Across the digital universe, Bernie Bros have devolved into hysterics over the End of the Republic, or else turned on him viciously, labeling him a phony and a sell-out, as if the oligarchy had finally found the treasure that could sway the avowed democratic socialist to its side.
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Balkin and Skowronek contend Trump falls into the same disjunctive category as Hoover and Carter, leading Balkin to argue that Trump's greatest gift to the country is the gift of destruction — not of the country, but of the coalition he leads and the complacent oligarchy that strangles our democracy.
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What happened to that?) ultimately wound up creating such a republic, by literally overthrowing the tyranny of the Judge in favor of a new, more flexible order, albeit one that like most republics allows a small oligarchy (led by the show's heroes, naturally) to run things in practice.
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" They write, "As structures of opportunity grow more narrow and brittle, and class inequalities mount, our nation is becoming what reformers throughout the nineteenth and early-twentieth century meant when they talked about a society with a 'moneyed aristocracy' or a 'ruling class'—an oligarchy, not a republic.
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It is doing exactly, I wouldn't say the same, even worse things then the previous governments did in a sense in trying to build a new oligarchy, trying to control media, put in people who are friendly to the government, control the number of TV channels in Greece- this is unthinkable.
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Sanders' standard speech attacked the crony capitalist banking oligarchy that owns so many members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, and which has had inordinate influence on all recent presidents, including Mr. Hillary Clinton, whose Treasury Secretary was Bob Rubin, former Chairman of Goldman Sachs, a frequent bête noire of Sanders.
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According to the number of the rulers, he distinguished between: (1) monarchy, the rule of one good man, and tyranny, the distorted form of monarchy; (2) aristocracy, the rule of a few good men, and oligarchy, its distorted form; (3) democracy, the rule of the many, of all the people.
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It helped a lot that she was facing her perfect foil for her anti-oligarchy message in Mike Bloomberg, a billionaire (strike one) using his fortune to try to buy the primary through advertising (strike two), who also has a track record of treating his female employees poorly (strike three).
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In a future of nightmarish climate change and rampant oligarchy, a small group of people live and work in an underground lab facility called the Needle, hoping to master something akin to faster-than-light travel: This is the concept behind PROOF OF CONCEPT (Tom Doherty, paper, $14.99), by Gwyneth Jones.
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We have a mass incarceration problem, an opioid epidemic, a woefully inadequate educational system, and a government that, according to an exhaustive study by Princeton Professor Martin Gilens and Northwestern Professor Benjamin Page, is more of an oligarchy than a democracy, with the government considerably more responsive to the rich.
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My hope is that when future historians look back and describe how our country moved forward into reversing the drift toward oligarchy, and created a government which represents all the people and not just the few, they will note that, to a significant degree, that effort began with the political revolution of 2016.
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Hofstadter argued that populism could not be divorced from its dark cousin: the American "paranoid style," which sees in the machinations of far-off bureaucrats the signs of a creeping conspiracy, and interprets the great consolidation of wealth endemic to industrial society as the greedy avarice of "economic royalists" or an aristocratic oligarchy.
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Manchin voted for some Trump nominees, but he came out swinging against most of the Trump administration's early agenda, including Trumpcare, the proposed budget, defunding Planned Parenthood, the border wall, and what Manchin called the "oligarchy in America" that allows a few families to funnel millions upon millions of dollars into politics.
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By his evening immigration speech he'd returned to the class and race tropes that have defined his campaign: that the American government is in the grips of a rich oligarchy that distorts everything for its benefit; that the American people are besieged by foreigners, who take their jobs and threaten their lives.
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While receiving an award on Thursday from a progressive group whose leadership praised him for "holding the Koch brothers accountable," Mr. Reid declared that the goal of the Kochs and their allies was to turn the United States into an oligarchy with a chosen few running the nation for their personal benefit.
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Donald Trump's administration picks thus far have proven his populist campaign founded on "making America great again" for working and middle class Americans was a Trojan horse to further spread oligarchy and continue the pervasive trend of pawning off political power and influence to dubious corporate and wealthy entities, including Goldman Sachs.
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There was no need for detailed electoral collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin's oligarchy because they had an overarching deal: the quid of help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton for the quo of a new pro-Russian foreign policy, starting with relief from the Obama administration's burdensome economic sanctions.
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If you are in this kind of an oligarchy that Russia is, if you are somebody you are there -- you are somebody because you&aposre allowed to be somebody, and if and if you&aposre going to the United States somebody will talk to you and try to help you that you can help them.
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Beyond Moss' terrific performance, the cast is topnotch, with Yvonne Strahovski ("Chuck") as the severe mistress of Offred's new home, "The Gilmore Girls'" Alexis Bledel as her forced companion ("We go everywhere in twos") and Joseph Fiennes as the Commander, a privileged master of the universe who embodies the privileged, male-dominated ruling oligarchy.
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For those nonsocialists who put political equality first and those socialists who do worry over it, this mobilization of capitalist oligarchy under social democratic auspices also remains a first-order threat to democracy—one all too prone to perpetuating a structure of domination, as any avid reader of Nordic detective fiction can tell you.
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So what I want to do in this note is explain why I'm not a full believer in Lerner's functional finance; I think this critique applies to MMT as well, although if past debates are any indication, I will promptly be told that I don't understand, am a corrupt tool of the oligarchy, or something.
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I suspect that Mrs May will also use this election as a chance to fashion an economic policy that, in the long term, breaks with some of the most fundamental tenets of Thatcherism (for example about corporate control and corporate social responsibility) and a social policy that puts more emphasis on challenging the power of Britain's emerging oligarchy.
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When the state was heavily rural and firmly controlled by a debt-phobic, conservative Democratic oligarchy, it was an article of faith to decry as irresponsible the deficit-financing that has become routine in Washington, DC. But in suburban-dominated Virginia, federal beneficence fuelled the growth of the counties immediately flanking Washington: Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William and Loudoun.
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Warren's plan, by taxing large fortunes at a slow and steady pace rather than in a single huge spurt when someone dies, has the advantage of being less sensitive to timing issues, while Sanders's probably does a better job of tapping directly into the intuition that the government should try to prevent the emergence of an entrenched oligarchy.
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" With Sanders admirers waving placards reading "Democracy v Oligarchy, Humanity v Greed" and ''Not Me — Us," the rally had the feel of some of the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011 and 2012, with the predominantly young crowd cheering Mr. Sanders every time he railed against major companies and executives and promised to impose higher taxes on Wall Street.
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"The issue of oligarchy and wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time, it is the great economic issue of our time and it is the great political issue of our time, yet it gets very little coverage from the corporate media," Sanders said in a statement leading up to the event.
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Even a hundred days into his Presidency, he had spent little time articulating how, exactly, he was planning to execute his proposed reforms, which included disciplining a self-interested oligarchy and negotiating an end to the five-year war with Russian-backed separatists in the eastern region of the Donbass, in which, to date, more than ten thousand people have been killed.
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Former U.S. Navy intelligence expert Malcolm Nance said in an interview that aired Wednesday on "Rising" that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE wants the same kind of authority held by the Russian oligarchy.
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Without regard for the intense suffering taking place around the globe thanks to hard power — dropping bombs, failing to assist refugees, allowing masses of people to starve and thirst for water — the new American nationalism seems to be leaning toward showing that we, too, can be fiercely protectionist on behalf of our oligarchy, both domestically and with our foreign policy.
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In his remarkable book, The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66, Geoffrey Robinson cites a wide range of countries, including Argentina, Bosnia, Cambodia, Chile, Germany, Japan, Rwanda, and South Africa, that had to confront and reckon with their own horrifying pasts of strongman impunity, untrammeled political violence, and exploitation at the hands of a globalized moneyed oligarchy.
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Over the past two decades, Democrats steadily lost disaffected former supporters, while failing to consistently mobilize young or economically precarious people alienated from the entire political process, as the Republican Party increasingly became a nihilistic, anti-democratic machine designed to bamboozle a white elderly base and thwart the desires of the larger public for the sake of an entrenched oligarchy.
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Which is no surprise: The novel's extreme candor extends from its long and unabashed sex scenes to its matter-of-fact descriptions of the Tiananmen massacre and the rise of the "princeling" economy, in which the sons and daughters of elite Communist Party cadres built state-protected business empires in the 1980s and '90s, establishing much of the oligarchy that controls China today.
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"Today the President's re-election campaign filed suit against the New York Times for falsely stating the Campaign had an 'overarching deal' with 'Vladimir Putin's oligarchy' to 'help the campaign against Hillary Clinton' in exchange for 'a new pro-Russian foreign policy, starting with relief from ... economic sanctions,"' said Jenna Ellis, senior legal to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.
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"Today the President's re-election campaign filed suit against the New York Times for falsely stating the Campaign had an 'overarching deal' with 'Vladimir Putin's oligarchy' to 'help the campaign against Hillary Clinton' in exchange for 'a new pro-Russian foreign policy, starting with relief from ... economic sanctions,'" said Jenna Ellis, senior legal to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.
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"We are going to take on the billionaire class, substantially reduce wealth inequality in America and stop our democracy from turning into a corrupt oligarchy," said Sanders, who earlier this year released a proposal that would expand the federal estate tax on the wealthiest 0.2% of Americans, imposing a top rate of 77% on estates worth more than $1 billion.
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" In the op-ed in question, headlined "The Real Trump-Russia Quid Pro Quo," author Max Frankel asserts in part that Trump's 2016 campaign had an "overarching deal" with Russian President "Vladimir Putin's oligarchy" in order to "help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton," in exchange for "a new pro-Russian foreign policy, starting with relief from the Obama administration's burdensome economic sanctions.
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But now, we got an oligarchy from Russia kicked out of the country, you&aposve got Ohr, Steele talking about bringing him back in and spreading misinformation, lying to the American people to sway an election, and now lying to a FISA court, getting into the Trump campaign, and using the information after to take down the president after he beats all of this crap.
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With his business background, a television superstar, and a Washington outsider, he has notably attracted potential voters far beyond the Tea Party and Christian Evangelical constituencies to blue collar union workers, independents, veterans, and Democrats who are seeking a president who is not part of the Washington oligarchy that has exercised absolute control in changing the fiber rooted in the American dream and Constitution.
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Like many other countries in the world that have universal health care, I believe there is a role for private insurance but we have to re-evaluate what that looks like — we need to create transparency in the system, break up what is essentially an oligarchy in the pharmaceutical and health care industries and ensure Americans aren't being gouged for services they need to live.
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" Frankel wrote, in the article's first paragraph, that during the 2016 election, "There was no need for detailed electoral collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin's oligarchy because they had an overarching deal: the quid of help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton for the quo of a new pro-Russian foreign policy, starting with relief from the Obama administration's burdensome economic sanctions.
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"Frankel's story makes the case that in the case of Russian interference and collusion, "There was no need for detailed electoral collusion between the Trump campaign and Vladimir Putin's oligarchy because they had an overarching deal: the quid of help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton for the quo of a new pro-Russian foreign policy, starting with relief from the Obama administration's burdensome economic sanctions.
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It is actually genuinely very difficult to tell if Bitcoin is: (a) a right-libertarian fad designed for tax evasion and shady crime markets that has made a few nerds and venture capitalists millionaires, or (b) a technological revolution, to some degree separate from the ethics of its proponents, that will seriously undermine a financial oligarchy fat on the profits reared from an out-dated system of exchange.
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Even if it did do a better job at telling the story it means to tell, the hidden costs that went into Detroit would hardly be worth it: workers in court suing over harassment, a company reportedly organized into an undisguised creative oligarchy, an entire regional block of game outlets who are too wary of legal action to mention any of this in their own release coverage of the game.
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That's because, when it comes to charts and common practices, country isn't a genre or a set of sounds as much as it is an oligarchy, the product of a limited number of record labels; a media environment that relies heavily on radio (with programmers who can lack imagination, as female country performers have long known); and a profound bottleneck in terms of new talent and new ideas.
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" On Twitter, Gab continued its ill-advised broadsides against critics, retweeting an account using the handle @DocumentTheLeft showing photos of users who had joked about or called for the death of Donald Trump, calling it "disgusting that the media is centering their focus on Gab instead of honoring the victims or denouncing the alleged terrorist," and spinning up a conspiracy theory that "the Big Tech oligarchy is colluding to remove http://Gab.
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For most Americans however, the president's lack of accountability, his apparent belief that he and his cabinet are above the law, the increasing evidence of his ties to Russia, and his rampant conflicts of interest constitute an assault on the core values of American democracy and a real threat to self-governance, many of which are detailed in a new report from Common Cause entitled Putin, Trump, and Democracy's Slippery Slope Toward Oligarchy.
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Karl Popper, in his book "The Open Society and Its Enemies," traced exactly the same cycle back to Plato's preference for regimented Sparta over freewheeling Athens (which is where Rousseau got the idea) and to a permanent cycle of history in which open societies, in their pluralism, create an anxiety that brings about a reaction toward a fixed organic state, which, then as now, serves both the interests of an oligarchy and those of a frightened, insecure population looking to arrest change.
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This is why it is so powerful that Clinton, Sanders, Warren and a united Democratic Party all rally together — for free public college tuition for many Americans, for a public option to make healthcare more affordable, to seek a Supreme Court that will restore equal justice for all, to champion fair immigration laws, to stand for full equality for LGBT Americans and to call for the end to the corruptions brought by the Citizens United decision that is turning the land of the free and home of the brave into an oligarchy of aristocracy.
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