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...A dystopian novel about the terrible oppressions of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a socialist revolutionary movement. (Introduction by Matt Soar)...

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... ideology, not science: a judgment that is driven by values and predilections, not by hard data. Similarly, to talk about a monolithic, immutable oligarchy is laughable. As any casual perusal of Forbes' list of richest people would show, the mobility inside this group is remarkable and its composition is in constant flux. Most of its new members are there by virtue of ...

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...Chapter 32: Internet Chapter 33: Religion Chapter 34: Uncorrelated Variables Chapter 35: The System Isn’t Broken—It’s Flawed Chapter 36: Defining Oligarchy and Democracy Chapter 37: Oligarchy in the United States Chapter 38: Democracy Isn’t Tyranny Chapter 39: History of Democratic Reform Chapter 40: Opposition to Democracy Chapter 41: Arguments against Direct Dem...

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...e. Most of the citizens had little education. You were actually run by an oligarchy of rich businessmen and farmers. Now you have extensive schooli... ...Plato‘s Republic with his philosopher kings. But rather than a benevolent oligarchy making fair and effective laws, you are hoping for an intelligen...

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...r kings set a standard, but few leaders want to follow the thinking of an oligarchy. They want to man the tiller alone. Lee Kuan Yew, the ‘...

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...c towards sufferings of others. In order to deceive masses, we were told, American oligarchy uses manic defenses. The delivery was not dissimilar t...

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...ow it can best be accomplished.‖ --―Maybe a benevolent dictatorship or oligarchy would be more intelligent and more effective than our American s... ...lic, where the representatives are popularly elected. We could make it an oligarchy of the wisest citizens as Plato suggested. We can base it on eco...

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...prised of small-time contractors. The car industry was already a monopolized oligarchy of three huge corporations. What is the result today? Expe... ... is gone. The age of Emperors is over. Bush’s weak attempt to bring back an oligarchy of corporate power in America is already crumbling as fast as...

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...le; in any other modern state it cannot exist. The opposite term to it was oligarchy, in which a small council of men controlled the affairs of the st... ...rchy, in which a small council of men controlled the affairs of the state. Oligarchy, narrowed down to one man, became monarchy. If you wished to be p... ...arrowed down to one man, became monarchy. If you wished to be polite to an oligarchy you called it an aristocracy; if you wished to point out that a m... ...ch was rather by way of being self-appointed, you called him a T yrant. An oligarchy with a property quali- fication was a plutocracy. Now the modern ...

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...ntific, and efficient; the Western countries have to do the same with that oligarchy of politicians which, as Pro- fessor Michels has recently pointed... ...Powers have to attain a common end. Both bureaucracy and pseudo-democratic oligarchy have to accomplish an identi- cal task, to cement the pacific all... ...advises them respectfully. But that was in the closing days of the British oligarchy; that was before modern democracy had begun to produce its charac... ... Great Britain rubs her eyes and looks at her government as it is. The old oligarchy established the tradition of her diplo- macy. Illiberal at home, ...

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...e magnificent temporary officers and all this wealth of munitions. And the oligarchy is so invincibly for- tified! Do you think it will let in Frenchm... ... make this proposal!” 3 3 3 3 3 The antagonistic relations of the Anglican oligarchy with the greater and greater-spirited Britain that thrust behind ... ...n Germany, probably they are exaggerated in Germany with a bigger military oligarchy and a relatively lesser civil body under it. This antagonism is t... ...nterests and community of aim that is utterly beyond the habits of the old oligarchy to conceive, 124 War and the Future beyond the scope of that taw...

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... new light sprung up and yet springing daily in this city? should ye set an oligarchy of twenty engrossers over it, to bring a famine upon our minds ...

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...akes us more seriously than we take our- selves. He seems to think that an oligarchy of wealth is growing up here, and he advised me to be on my guard...

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...Faubourg Saint-Germain tried to be an aristocracy when it could only be an oligarchy— two very different systems, as any man may see for himself if he... ...f the noblesse meant to reinstate themselves, the better to found a strong oligarchy, they should have honestly and dili- gently searched their Houses...

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...us doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men, and not more so. They hav... ...Judge Douglas, Mr. Jefferson holds, would reduce us to the despotism of an oligarchy. Now, I have said no more than this,—in fact, never quite so much...

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... leading dog, who either divides it among the few, and then it falls to an oligarchy, or keeps it to himself, and then it runs up to a tyranny. The sa...

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...r of the vulgar, as though they were changing the form of government to an oligarchy, and designing to keep the supreme power in a sort of wardship un... ...versities in the country. The Hill quarter favored de- mocracy, the Plain, oligarchy, and those that lived by the Sea- side stood for a mixed sort of ... ...the democracy, and that the farming population were not so much opposed to oligarchy. Themistocles, however, formed yet higher designs with a view to ... ...of six persons rather than two was some satisfac- tion to the opponents of oligarchy. This was the condition of the times when Camillus was in the hei... ...ysses. He was always supposed to hate popu- lar government, and to support oligarchy. The chief ground of his being suspected of defacing the images w... ... made use of by those who desired to change the government of Athens to an oligarchy. But as soon as they prevailed, and had got the administra- tion ... ... surprise the Cadmea, and, banishing the contrary faction, to establish an oligarchy, and by that means subject the city to the supremacy of the Spart... ...itude not according to their own inclinations, but as being subjects of an oligarchy. The battle being thus divided, the Lacedaemonians first beat off... ... were, the bit out of the mouth of the people, which, being freed from the oligarchy, would now break out again into affronts and insolence; and Lysan...

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...rove to be more permanently and solidly combined that the old nobility? An oligarchy of a hundred thousand rich men presents all the dangers of a demo... ...zzar’s feast is the everlasting symbol of the dying days of a caste, of an oligarchy, of a power!” he thought as he walked away. “My God! if it be Thy...

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...rie, and much less friendly. It’d had more generations in which to form an oligarchy of respectability. Here, a stranger is taken in if he is correct,... ...s men of the cash-register and the comic film, who make the town a sterile oligarchy. VII She had sought to be definite in analyzing the surface uglin...

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...uld was not a born slaveholder—not a birthright member of the slaveholding oligarchy. He was only a slaveholder by marriage-right; and, of all slaveho...