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  • Oligarchical collectivism is an arrangement of pyramidal institutions.

    Oil-garchical Collectivism 2009

  • These groups are encouraged through money and support to use their influence to de-power opposition to Oligarchical control.

    Bill Clinton's 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' 2009

  • There is a concerted effort by the Oligarchical powers of the Military Industrial

    Bill Clinton's 'Vast Right Wing Conspiracy' 2009

  • Oligarchical collectivism is a collection of pyramidal institutions acting in coordination to maintain their control of conditions.

    The Ignoble Tea Party 2009

  • The United States is well on the way to Oligarchical Collectivism.

    Think Progress » Samuel Alito’s America 2005

  • A resistant reading of some form can also be seen to be encouraged by the inclusion of the Appendix and The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, since both sections can be seen to subvert readerly preconceptions concerning the genre of the novel.

    Hope Begins in the Dark: Re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Four 2005

  • The sections of The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism can be seen to suggest, furthermore, that Nineteen Eighty-Four can be read as a satire of the approval by Western intellectuals of totalitarianism.

    Hope Begins in the Dark: Re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Four 2005

  • Orwell's prophetic idea of a "perpetual state of war" is described in 1984 - by the fictional 'Emmanuel Goldstein' in Chapter 3 (War Is Peace) of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism":

    Making the U.S. Safe...for Dictatorship 2006

  • Shift the scene a little, and we have no difficulty deciphering the figure of Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, or in recognizing the secret "book within a book" in that novel (The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism), as a derivative of Trotsky's Revolution Betrayed.

    The Old Man 2004

  • Shift the scene a little, and we have no difficulty deciphering the figure of Emmanuel Goldstein in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, or in recognizing the secret "book within a book" in that novel (The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism), as a derivative of Trotsky's Revolution Betrayed.

    The Old Man 2004

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