Sentences with phrase «as oligarchies»

Our schools shouldn't operate as oligarchies with rules made by a small group of adults for the much larger group of students.

The Salvadoran Government and the oligarchy were jubilant, because they thought (even the Vatican) that Romero would maintain good relationship with the Government as well as the oligarchy and, Rome was convinced about this.

While Russia has a patina of democracy, it's better understood as an oligarchy that serves and protects the rich.

Michels stated that the official goal of representative democracy of eliminating elite rule was impossible, that representative democracy is a façade legitimizing the rule of a particular elite, and that elite rule, that he refers to as oligarchy, is inevitable.

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Fright and homelessness, strife and lawlessness were fertile grounds for the seeds of what I would regard as oligarchy Fascism.

Not exact matches

He sees Wall Street bankers now entrenched as the new American oligarchy, subtle but surprisingly brazen in their manipulation of political actors and the levers of government power.

This monetarist theory has guided Russian economic reform (and its quick bankruptcy) under Yeltsin and his oligarchy, as well as Chile's privatization (and early bankruptcy) under Gen. Pinochet, and the austerity programs (and subsequent bankruptcies and national resource sell offs) imposed by the IMF on third world debtor countries.

And as Aristotle said, «what is democracy but the stage immediately preceding oligarchy?

Will we have to choose between an oligarchy of «RPR vendors» — Google, Facebook, Microsoft — or will we take a more distributed approach, as the original Internet did?

It was waged by the oligarchy (which had enriched itself largely by privatizing public land after the Punic Wars with Carthage, much as today's oligarchy has grown rich by privatization and public - private financial «cooperation»).

As president, he will have to do what FDR did, and challenge the financial oligarchy with new regulatory agencies, staffed with real regulators, not deregulators as under the Bush - Clinton - Bush regimAs president, he will have to do what FDR did, and challenge the financial oligarchy with new regulatory agencies, staffed with real regulators, not deregulators as under the Bush - Clinton - Bush regimas under the Bush - Clinton - Bush regime.

the small group... its oligarchy... they overturned the VOTE of the MAJORITY... such as in California..

Perhaps the «Patriarchy Oligarchy» will experience a much warranted melt - down as it gets more exposed to the light...

In a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.»

But he was also a man of integrity, and as his eyes were gradually opened to what was going on around him — particularly the exploitation and repression of the poor at the hands of the oligarchy, the government and the military — he could no longer keep silent.

Imagine if people like Michelle Bachman, Kent Hovind, or Pat Robertson had their way, and there was no such thing as separation of church from state to hold them back from brainwashing our children, persecuting non-believers like they did in medieval times, and turning our country into a Christian oligarchy.

75 % of the people no longer believe in the Establishment of the Church as they are a means for the top 1 % Aristocratic Oligarchy to maintain their power over the 99 % working masses.

Do you have some examples from your life where you see yourself as part of the arrogant oligarchy?

The new prayer includes references to protecting the country from «evil» such as capitalism and oligarchy.

In more recent years, particularly as the Spanish depression deepened, there could be no challengers to this oligarchy.

Angola gained notoriety just over a decade ago as an oil - rich country run by an oligarchy lording over an impoverished, war - weary population.

Only a movement of morning - suited Labourites, steeped in royal, parliamentary and municipal pageantry and charity, could preserve and celebrate the pageantry and charity of the City of London while ending its status as a tax haven and as a state within the State, Europe's last great Medieval republican oligarchy, right where the United Kingdom ought to be.

If sh» e going to stand a chance of weakenning the economic oligarchy, she can't take on the securicrats as well.

With these scenarios in mind, the new emerging Arab leadership needs to create genuine democratic expectations as a bulwark against corruption and oligarchy.

The whole series really is well worth checking out; I particularly recommend the sections on elite progressive bloggers as a new political oligarchy (confirming some prejudices), on conservative efforts to catch up, and on online attack ads and dirty tricks (mmmm, my favorite).

As long as you believe that change can come from voting for whatever puppet of the oligarchy you favor, you will keep believing in «democracy» and reject the very notion that revolution might be necessarAs long as you believe that change can come from voting for whatever puppet of the oligarchy you favor, you will keep believing in «democracy» and reject the very notion that revolution might be necessaras you believe that change can come from voting for whatever puppet of the oligarchy you favor, you will keep believing in «democracy» and reject the very notion that revolution might be necessary.

As long as the great masses believe that real «change they can believe in» can come from coloring a dot every couple of years, they are not inclined to conspire against the oligarchy and start a violent revolutioAs long as the great masses believe that real «change they can believe in» can come from coloring a dot every couple of years, they are not inclined to conspire against the oligarchy and start a violent revolutioas the great masses believe that real «change they can believe in» can come from coloring a dot every couple of years, they are not inclined to conspire against the oligarchy and start a violent revolution.

I am tired of America becoming more of an oligarchy and I blame the TEAPublicans and the poorly informed voters they manipulate with the nonsense you put out as propaganda on behalf of you political masters.

We might as well be an Oligarchy.

They surely understand that recent decisions on campaign spending are bringing an end to the U.S. as a republic and replacing it with an oligarchy.

In a not so festive season when we've all been thinking hard about a lot of terrible thinkings like corrupt governments and oligarchies, sexual misconduct and systemic isms that make life such an oppressive mess for so many people (and damage everyone — even the opporessors — since we all are truly in this life together) as well as the terror of both climate change and this particular cold snap (I'm super sick right now, yay!)

The whole physiognomy of capitalism has changed, with finance capital requiring a parallel accumulation of political power, with financiers married to an unchecked political oligarchy spawning highly parasitic fanancialized forms of capitalism such as asset - stripping.

Recognize that what Bernie Sanders has pointed out about our political system as a whole is true about education in particular as well: We are an oligarchy.

Through the lens of personality - Stalin's as well as those of his most notorious henchmen, Molotov, Beria and Yezhov among them - the author sheds new light on the oligarchy that attempted to create a new world by exterminating the old.

During the time of Sharq al - Andalus a real (from the Arabic Riyad) was a kind of orchard or garden, with some kind of building as summer residence that used to belong to a member of Andalusian urban oligarchy, located around the cities or large farmhouses.

It can also be bluntly rhetorical, as with the crowned and insipidly smiling one - percenter in Oligarchy, who is borne aloft in a chair by an African - American and some attractive hipsters evoking a contemporary Brooklyn ethos.

The goal isn't to establish Atlanta as a member of the New York / Los Angeles «art center oligarchy,» but «to facilitate more circulation, more movement toward both the heart of communities, and their margins.»

3) Libertarian language is consistently used as cover for oligarchy, and in practice the problem is that an unfettered marketplace leads to monopolistic abuses.

As other commenters noted, the «vulnerable» countries are all poor and all oligarchies, dictatorships, or close enough you can't tell the difference.

Also, I don't see dictatorship as being about the lack of voting, to me it's about the control of the state by an individual or small oligarchy; and totalitarianism is not about the invasiveness of the state, it's about total state control of the individuals actions.

A corner largely thanks to the actions of the Greek kleptocratic oligarchy in power for the past 40 years and partly as a result of his inability to follow through on his electoral promises of only a few months.