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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The system of oligarchy; attachment or devotion to the principles of oligarchy.

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Examples

  • WASHINGTON DC — The grand theft bailout now being rammed through Congress by Treasury Secretary Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and other officials of the Bush regime with the help of accomplices Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Reid, and other parliamentarians is a monstrosity for the ages, combining every hideous feature of monetarism, elitism, oligarchism, and sheer feckless incompetence.

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  • WASHINGTON DC — The grand theft bailout now being rammed through Congress by Treasury Secretary Paulson, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, and other officials of the Bush regime with the help of accomplices Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Reid, and other parliamentarians is a monstrosity for the ages, combining every hideous feature of monetarism, elitism, oligarchism, and sheer feckless incompetence.

    tarpley on the crisis 2008

  • In that piece, LaRouche documents that the imperial policies intrinsic to oligarchism have set into motion the self-destruction of the population levels and economies of those "white" nations that have complicitly tolerated oligarchical policies - most specifically the United States and Great Britain.

    The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - UFO Section 4 2010

  • Indo-China war, a Machiavelli who has been one of the founders of modern strategy, always emphasizing the republican cause in seeking arts for dealing with the pestilence of oligarchy and oligarchism polluting all of Europe during his own part of the

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

  • Thus, oligarchism, and cultural expressions such as the existentialism of the doctrine published as

    LaRouche's Latest 2009

  • In that piece, LaRouche documents that the imperial policies intrinsic to oligarchism have set into motion the self-destruction of the population levels and economies of those "white" nations that have complicitly tolerated oligarchical policies - most specifically the United States and Great Britain.

    The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Conspiracy Nation 2009

  • I can't pretend to understand the complex nature of Ukrainian politics, oligarchism, and corruption, but needless to say, Donetsk, like most cities in Ukraine, has plenty of all three.

    Museum Blogs 2009

  • In that piece, LaRouche documents that the imperial policies intrinsic to oligarchism have set into motion the self-destruction of the population levels and economies of those "white" nations that have complicitly tolerated oligarchical policies - most specifically the United States and Great Britain.

    The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Philosophers - Plato 2009

  • Specifically, in the history of modern civilization, it has been chiefly the rise of what became the Anglo-Dutch Liberalism engendered by Paolo Sarpi and his followers which has been the leading edge of the imperialist factor of oligarchism in modern European history thus far.

    LaRouche's Latest 2009

  • Vice-President Gore today, an expression of the characteristic feature of the phenomenon of oligarchism whose destructive effects were experienced in the collapse of ancient and medieval empires, and which are the root-cause of the currently threatened general collapse of civilization being experienced as the onrushing disintegration of the presently hegemonic Anglo-Dutch Liberal financier system.

    LaRouche's Latest 2009

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