oligarchy

Paid social media’s oligarchy, made up of Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, may soon have to share the crown as competing social media platforms are getting a second look from advertisers.

World history teaches that oligarchies are almost impossible to unwind except by war or violent revolution.

As for immigration, the idea that those who want to tackle these problems are doing the bidding of a “corporate oligarchy” seeking cheap labor is not working-class straight talk, it’s insulting nonsense.

The central theme of your new book is that the American system presently finds itself in a conflict between “democracy versus oligarchy.”

Whatever it takes, we need to find a way to get voters excited about cleaning up political spending before we go full oligarchy.

In the early 20th century, many progressives and populists, as well as a growing socialist movement, rose to oppose oligarchy.

Instead we have witnessed the emergence of the Age of Oligarchy.

Russia and Ukraine under Yanukovych shared a single form of government – rule by a criminal oligarchy.

“Some say America is an oligarchy for the multinationals,” he said.

The oligarchy was saved, but the struggle between rich and poor was by no means over.

It was an oligarchy of a few powerful whig noblemen, whose rule was supreme in England.

He limited the freedom of the citizens, and turned the old democratic constitution into an oligarchy.

In truth he had no popular sympathies, and leaned towards an aristocracy which was little short of an oligarchy.

The views he put forward were simply these: Ireland can no longer be governed by an oligarchy, however powerful.