oligarchical

Either an entity is accountable to such oligarchical 'control' or it is not.

The mad, stupid rabble then topple whatever oligarchical government they have and their country collapses from an inegalitarian oligarchical shithole into an utterly insane and incompetent shithole.

With certain exceptions, the ruling dynasties of Byzantium continued the oligarchical policy of Diocletian and Constantine.

China on the other hand, has a governing style based on oligarchical manipulation of the population.

We now seem to be heading right back into the oligarchical paradigm of rich get richer, and poor stay serfs [1].

They especially don't like doing so, the more they see the system on which it operates as being oligarchical, abusive, and unethical.

Those who ethically disagree with the current oligarchical model for issuing laws that govern the fate of the world do, indeed, disagree.

In the mind of an objector, there is no more legitimacy in a dictator's brutality, or in an oligarchical republic's brutality (e.g.

Indeed, I've found the infiltration of monarchical type behaviour to be surprisingly prevalent in the modern US oligarchical elite structure.

A defense of the free market without redistribution to counter the effects of this and other historical crimes is a defense of oligarchical privilege.

The point where 1984 slips ahead though is the book-in-the-book 'The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, by Emmanuel Goldstein.' In particular, it describes how the system must allow some non hereditary class movement.

Now imagine Russia as it exists today; expansionist and oligarchical.

In the 20th century autocratic/oligarchical/fascist states adopted "Republic" to sound democratic, and that use is becoming more common.

Not because of "national security", but because of "globalized aristocratic oligarchical security posing as national security".

And that doesn't even start into the problems of malignant oligarchical elites in our current democratic republics, who have largely decided, "Voters are stupid, so I'm going to govern on the class interests of myself and my social peers!"

This is true regardless of where an ideology falls on the oversimplistic "right-left" spectrum: North Korea, Fascist Italy, Communist Russia, Oligarchical-Capitalist Russia, Cambodia, North Vietnam, Burma, Communist China, pretty much the entire Middle East, etc.

>North Korea, Fascist Italy, Communist Russia, Oligarchical-Capitalist Russia, Cambodia, North Vietnam, Burma, Communist China, pretty much the entire Middle East, etc.