Opinion: The World Has Reached Peak Plutocracy
We see people frustrated by the surge in the power of the plutocrats. Plutocracy is a society or a system ruled and dominated by a small minority of the wealthiest. The rich have always been powerful; some element of plutocracy has been present in all ...
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Plutocracy the First Time Around
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and What came to be known as the Great Upheaval, the movement for the eight-hour day, elicited what one historian has called “a strange enthusiasm.” The normal ...
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