Sentences with phrase «oligarchy over»

The 99 % slogan of the Occupy movement and los indignados referred not only to increasing economic inequality but to the dominance of a wealthy oligarchy over the many.

are you really going to pretend that the opulent lifestyle of the religious oligarchy over the past millennia was not supported by the «donations» of the faithful?

Not exact matches

Looking over three centuries of Greek experience, Aristotle found a perpetual triangular sequence of democracy turning into oligarchy, whose members made themselves into a hereditary aristocracy — and then some families sought to take the demos into their own camp by sponsoring democracy, which in turn led to wealthy families replacing it with an oligarchy, and so on.

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.

If I were born into a faith organization that was a solid socialist oligarchy having fair flat tax, budget surpluses, welfare without shame, culturally sensitve worldwide outreach, and promise to rule over a planet of my own, I would find sticking around to be a good bet, and all the myths to be no more bizarre than those found in other faith traditions.

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

If Albany lawmakers are looking for guidance in a time of powerful populism, they should look for policy options that promote democracy and the interests of regular people over oligarchy and the interests of the billionaires.

The patterns are all over the place because the truth is in the numbers that the education oligarchy wanted collected.

Of course, such a national oligarchy fears an international order, where more internationally - minded history - minded folk would have an advantage over the luckiest local clans who would all be at cross purposes.

In an undemocratic rolling Oligarchy, the ideal is a ruling unelected government, over the people, for the Oligarchs, by the Oligarchs.