Oligarchy

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  10/6/2020
  

  The Oligarchs’ Revenge (Review)

  by Manisha Sinha

  Heather Cox Richardson's book makes an essential argument that the conceptual distinction between class and race in American history obscures the way that American elites have worked to create and defend oligarchy. 

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• 8/23/2020
  

  Monopoly in the 20th Century: Roosevelt Warns of Concentrated Wealth and Fascism (Excerpt)

  by Thom Hartmann

  Franklin Roosevelt recognized that the concentrated economic power of big businesses was a threat to democratic society and a step on the road to fascism, and wasn't afraid to say it. 

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Viral Consequences

  by David Marks

  The indifferent response of the Trump administration to the COVID-19 pandemic and the repressive police response to protests are a signal that we need a political and social transformation to address the ongoing global climate crisis. 

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• SOURCE: Facebook
  7-17-18
  

  "They are deliberately destroying democracy in favor of oligarchy."

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  In the 1890s and the 1920s, Americans took back their democracy. Today, we are at an even more dramatic crisis.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  5-3-17
  

  Trump sees government as a series of deals. That’s because he’s an oligarch.

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  The anti-democratic spirit of the Trump administration is nothing new and nothing good.