oligarchy (ŏlˈəgärkē) [Gr.,=rule by the few], rule by a few members of a community or group. When referring to governments, the classical definition of oligarchy, as given for example by Aristotle, is of government by a few, usually the rich, for their own advantage. It ...
It's a shame that the Republican majority on the Supreme Court doesn't know the difference between an oligarchy and a democratic republic.Yes, I said "the Republican majority," violating a nicety based on the pretense that when people reach the high court, they forget their party allegiance....
“Anyone who wants to rule men first tries to humiliate them, to trick them out of their rights and their capacity for resistance, until they are as powerless before him as animals,” wrote Elias Canetti inCrowds and Powerof the autocrat. “He uses them like animals and, even if he does...
By contrast, the EU is a cooperative enterprise of 'like-minded' nations. This does not mean that there are no differences of opinions (and of 'interests') among those nations on all sorts of subjects, but rather that they do have broad commonality in terms of 'values systems'. While th...
"The question is not how to get good people to rule; the question is how to stop the powerful from doing as much damage as they can to us."Karl PopperTHE WAR RACKET"Governments don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking, That is against their interests....
Why they have not continued to highlight corruption in Gujarat is anyone’s guess. Several years ago, the Tata Motor Company was allowed to establish a plant to build the “world's cheapest car” in Gujarat with surprising ease, flouting every rule in the book and even the state's ...
The oligarchs see a prize that they have sought since the earliest days of Bolshevism: the Russian Far East.[20]China is the means by which the region can be opened up, occupied and incorporated into the “One Belt, One Road.” Obviously, Americans are no use for the purpo...
"The question is not how to get good people to rule; the question is how to stop the powerful from doing as much damage as they can to us."Karl PopperTHE WAR RACKET"Governments don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking, That is against their interests....