Sentences with phrase «political oligarchy»

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.

Thompson wrote about Peru's struggles to overcome a powerful political oligarchy, for example, and that's still very much the story of Peruvian politics today.

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).

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.

«Power that controls the economy should be in the hands of elected representatives of the people, not in the hands of an industrial oligarchy,» Justice William O. Douglas wrote.171 Decentralizing this power would ensure that «the fortunes of the people will not be dependent on the whim or caprice, the political prejudice, the emotional stability of a few self - appointed men.»

Bisected by religious and political conflict in the 16th century, the Low Countries were divided into the Southern Netherlands, an appendage of Catholic Spain with Flanders at its heart, and the United Provinces or Dutch Republic, a newly minted, Protestant, entrepreneurial oligarchy whose growing pains sometimes seem uncannily predictive of our own.

We can imagine a Russia in which an authoritarian government accepts religious pluralism and economic oligarchy in exchange for a free hand with the media and political power.

Sarah calls for Africa and Asia to protect their cultures and governments from the political, financial, and moral future proposed by the West: «Mankind would lose much if these continents were to fall into the huge, formless magma of globalization, which is directed toward an inhumane ideal that is in fact hideous, barbaric oligarchy.»

By the Aristotelian conception of the Politic Systems there are 3 fundamental political systems: the monarchy, the aristocracy and the republic, with their 3 corruption forms: the tyranny, the oligarchy and the democracy.

For Cantor, Lipton, and other progressives in the organization, the dream is a political revolution: campaign finance reform, a more equitable distribution of wealth, an end to oligarchy.

Worldwatch's radical claim is that around the world there are «growing political pressures to replace a barely functioning democracy with something closer to technocratic oligarchy».

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.

Robert Michels's «Iron Law of Oligarchy», a century - old core concept in the study of political parties.

They are the parties of the ruling financial oligarchy and political class.

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.

The individuals and corporations funding this movement are laying the ground work for society controlled by corporate - government - military oligarchies to maintain the economic and political status quo.»

However, because Thatcher didn't really understand the nature of the conflict between environmentalism — which is the political expression of the old rent seeking land - based oliogarchy Vs the newer industrial oligarchy — things haven't quite gone to plan.

It is genuinely difficult to say what, if anything, can rally the left's diverse constituencies into a political force capable of counterbalancing the influence of the country's oligarchy.