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Surviving Progress

Expecting this to be buried very quickly but hey-ho
Came across this word...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...7558/oligarchy
oligarchy

oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes.

Aristotle used the term oligarchia to designate the rule of the few when it was exercised not by the best but by bad men unjustly. In this sense, oligarchy is a debased form of aristocracy, which denotes government by the few in which power is vested in the best individuals. Most classic oligarchies have resulted when governing elites were recruited exclusively from a ruling caste—a hereditary social grouping that is set apart from the rest of society by religion, kinship, economic....

The quote goes on but thats the gist of it.

It was on a programme on BBC4 called Surviving Progress, have to say it was an eye opening programme ...and the outcome for these Oiligarchic civilisations?.....Not good.

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Originally Posted by kizzy (Post 5173150)

Yes like Your Labour Leader
going to meet a Stinking Rich Millionaire
to get money loans

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/a...2_1473547a.jpg

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...00k-donor.html

No idea what any of that means

Come on arista stop trolling, if you have a point lets hear it.

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Originally Posted by InOne (Post 5173222)

No idea what any of that means

Its a Elite with Locked Doors
so Labour and their Stinking Corrupt Unions

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Originally Posted by kizzy (Post 5173224)

Come on arista stop trolling, if you have a point lets hear it.

You keep Making Digs
and you Never Ever Attack Labour.

I am not attacking anyone arista..... Who did I attack in my post?

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Originally Posted by kizzy (Post 5173243)

I am not attacking anyone arista..... Who did I attack in my post?

"oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes."

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Originally Posted by arista (Post 5173250)

"oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes."

That was a quote from the definition...Not my personal view.
It just shows though that this model has been proven to bring down powerful empires in the past....It would be unwise to recreate it...Don't you think?

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Originally Posted by arista (Post 5173250)

"oligarchy, government by the few, especially despotic power exercised by a small and privileged group for corrupt or selfish purposes."

That's not her opinion, though, is it? All she did was quote the facts.

It's not that hard to understand, is it?

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Originally Posted by Redway (Post 5173286)

That's not her opinion, though, is it? All she did was quote the facts.

It's not that hard to understand, is it?

Yes on many other threads it is.

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Originally Posted by kizzy (Post 5173261)

I am sure in Russia
they do.

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Originally Posted by arista (Post 5173382)

Yes on many other threads it is.

stop trolling my thread arista please

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Originally Posted by arista (Post 5173382)

Yes on many other threads it is.

Maybe for you it is. I refer you to the first paragraph of my previous post.