Rocky Anderson
Plutocracy: Political Repression in the United States is a series of films that comprehensively examine early North American history through the lens of class, to enable a wider critique of the social order in contemporary United States. The series not o
plutocracy is more an implicit concept than a formal governing model in any modern country. Author and former Harvard Business School professor David Korten believes that plutocracy "describes our situation in the United States far more accurately than the term democracy. We have been an ...
aristocracy– rule by elite or privileged upper class:The governing body was composed of the country’s most powerful aristocracy. democracy– government by the people:The United States is a democracy. oligarchy– government by the few:The citizens have no voice in an oligarchy. ...
12.So in the United States economic elites are really quite dominant, which is why in my book I call the U.S. a plutocracy. 13.But that doesn't stop him from chasing "the green light" of wealth and status, the dangled promise of power that can only create a corrupt plutocracy sho...
“In the full version of the game, a full-fledged game campaign will be present. Ability to choose game scenarios. The election of the President of the United States, and in Congress, as well as the possibility of interference with the player. An opportunity to lobby the necessary law for...
Plutocracy isa government controlled exclusively by the wealthy, either directly or indirectly. A plutocracy allows, either openly or by circumstance, only the wealthy to rule. Is the US a corporatocracy? Economist Jeffrey Sachs described the United States as a corporatocracy in The Price of Civili...
In a Washington Post interview, political scientist Anthony Corrado summed up what he considers the threat of Citizens United. “We have really seen the rise of a new plutocracy and the dominance of a very small group of wealthy donors who give enormous sums.” ...
When half a million workers struck on May 1, 1886 — the original “May Day,” still celebrated most places in the world except in the United States where it began — the strikers called it Emancipation Day. How archaic that sounds. Such hortatory rhetoric has gone out of fashion. The ei...
The United States and the Andean Republics: Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador Influence, 1900-1920 Liberalism and the Indians Liberalism and the Church Progress and the Rise of a New Plutocracy The Penetration of U.S. Capital: Peru Bolivia Ecuador The Social Problem Surfaces Disillusionment with ...