| 单词 | plutocracy |
| 例句 | "It's about the difference between National Socialism and a plutocracy." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Labor unions, an avenue for upward mobility for Northern workers, had been rendered ineffectual or were demolished altogether by the Dixie plutocracy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Not only did modern capitalism evolve at this time, but the rules needed to govern that capitalism and prevent the development of a plutocracy also had to be developed simultaneously. Books of The Times: How Economic Brawn Transformed a Nation 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z But, if this becomes a trend, soon only plutocrats will be permitted to report on the plutocracy. Welcome to Plutocrat-geddon! Obama and Thomas Friedman flatter our new billionaire overlords 2014-04-22T16:03:00Z But that doesn't stop him from chasing "the green light" of wealth and status, the dangled promise of power that can only create a corrupt plutocracy shored up by vast social inequality. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z Why would someone from the impoverished inner city become the leading defender of the carceral state and American plutocracy? How Should We Understand Clarence Thomas? 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z “A plutocracy is more accurate,” he said, citing the influence of money in elections. Oliver Stone revisits JFK assassination in new documentary 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z But he understood her great limitation: that she represented the nexus between meritocracy and plutocracy, indebted to Big Money and divorced from millions of heartland Americans. A Conservative’s Case Against Donald Trump 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z “They want to convince us that the choice is plutocracy or gulags. Anyone talking about significant change in the system is a communist.” Why does everybody suddenly hate billionaires? Because they’ve made it easy. 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Yet the priorities of plutocracy, rule by the rich, and democracy, rule by the people, often differ. How philanthropy benefits the super-rich 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Paxton, in particular, argues that the Trump regime is closer to a plutocracy than to fascism. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z For most of his episode, he speaks in an endless stream of obscenities but will occasionally drop a chestnut phrase like “Liberals are the Harvard grads interested in diversifying the plutocracy.” Stephen Markley’s “Ohio”: This year’s “Hillbilly Elegy” of fiction 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Intolerably, in the interim, Welsh’s nihilist critique was co-opted by the plutocracy. ‘Choose Facebook, revenge porn, zero hours': what does the Trainspotting speech mean today? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z America looks to be falling into the grips of an undemocratic plutocracy, he says, which is dependent on an expanding security state. The new wave 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Their pachydermous protagonist governs a benevolent plutocracy – but the books' great joy is the frequent sly and subtle lampooning of his capitalist pomp. JP Martin's elephant Uncle unforgotten in fan's republishing plan 2013-03-27T17:06:55Z From the Carnegies of Cumberland to the Rockefellers of Jekyll to the tobacco Reynoldses of Sapelo, the plutocracy loved its winters to be framed by moss swaying moodily in the balmy Southern breeze. On Cumberland Island, you don’t have to choose between roughing it and pampering yourself 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The deep corruption of democracy does not get much attention, nor does the alliance of plutocracy with aspiring autocracy. The D.I.Y. Way to Heal the Social Fabric: Don’t Do It Yourself 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z And when you get there if you're from the poor side of life, you will feel the winds of privilege sequester you in a corner, blown by the sons of the plutocracy enrolled there. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z How do you turn a plutocracy into a democracy? Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Hurtling as we are toward a Trumpian plutocracy, why not take 90 minutes or so to be pleasantly reminded that not all billionaires are just heartless cabinet nominees? ‘Becoming Warren Buffett’ is a timely reassurance that some billionaires have a heart 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Thereafter, he shows, the authoritarian strain mutated into numerous deplorable appeals and movements that incited white racism, demonized immigrants and promoted plutocracy. A Battle for the ‘Soul of America’? It’s as Old as America, One Historian Notes 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z “By the lusty plutocracy…, roaring after its meat… it was welcomed with a shout of applause.” The coddling of the conservative mind 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The similarities are obvious: the reign of plutocracy, government in the hands of the bankers and the corporations, and ordinary people suffering. 'Age of Acquiescence' examines America's second Gilded Age 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z End result: something like Mexico, where a small, filthy rich plutocracy rules over an impoverished mass of desperate, uneducated, and hopeless people. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z With prices averaging $3 million, it will likely draw bankers, tech executives and members of the New York’s swelling plutocracy. What 8 Workers Wore to Their Wall Street Construction Site 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z I would like countries to become democracies, not plutocracies. Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z He focuses especially on the Gilded Age that followed the Civil War, when the plutocracy was challenged regularly and revolt was in the air. 'Age of Acquiescence' examines America's second Gilded Age 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The scrum on an October afternoon included the son of a Mongolian dignitary, six scions of Mexican plutocracy wearing novelty somberos, and at least one supermodel. The Brunch Party Takes Over Clubs ? Partying Like It?s 3 A.M. 2011-11-16T22:29:28Z He was continually railing against “Jewish Bolshevism” or “Jewish plutocracy,” depending on whether he wanted to emphasize the enemy to the East or the enemy to the West. In the Second Volume of ‘Hitler,’ How a Dictator Invited His Own Downfall 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z He is a “Christian Nationalist” who wants America to be a white Christofascist plutocracy and not a pluralistic democracy. Mike Johnson is not a "culture warrior" — he's an enemy of democracy 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z In all, Trump's plans are an extension of a decades-long revolutionary project by the "conservative" movement and white right to end multiracial pluralistic democracy and replace it with a Christofascist plutocracy. Becoming America's first dictator 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z A dictator in waiting who with his Agenda 47 and Plan 2025 has publicly detailed his plans to end multiracial pluralistic democracy and replace it with a Christofascist plutocracy. "Meet the Press" deserves the backlash 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z In a socialist utopia cleansed of ill-gotten gains, or a pure plutocracy without reforming voices, he might have found a simpler, seamless world of less spiritual—- and therefore less lethal—-strain. Why liberalism drives so many people crazy 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z There are four major kinds of governing elites in Turchin's system: "militocracies," administrative or bureaucratic elites, ideological or religious elites, and plutocracies. A short history of civilizational collapse: Are we next — and how can we prevent it? 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z So in the United States economic elites are really quite dominant, which is why in my book I call the U.S. a plutocracy. Welcome to the "End Times": Peter Turchin saw this coming — and says we can still prevent collapse 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z In the United States that will likely take the form of a new Apartheid Christofascist electoral autocracy and plutocracy. The GOP's criminality goes international 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z For example, it is objectively true that Donald Trump, the Republican fascists and their forces are working to end multiracial democracy and replace it with an Apartheid Christofascist plutocracy. The myth of "liberal" news 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z The 21st-century Confederacy, like the original, would also be a plutocracy where the white rich and monied classes would control society without restrictions or limits. Stop mocking Marjorie Taylor Greene 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Turchin devotes a full chapter to his definition of the U.S. as a plutocracy, starting with the European history from which colonial America and then the independent republic emerged. A short history of civilizational collapse: Are we next — and how can we prevent it? 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z First, you describe the rise of America's plutocracy as explained by history and geography and, second, that it's sustained by race and ethnicity. Welcome to the "End Times": Peter Turchin saw this coming — and says we can still prevent collapse 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z But in the end, these forces are largely united in their desire to destroy America's multiracial democracy and replace it with a new apartheid Christofascist plutocracy. Trump dupes the media — with DeSantis' help 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, scourge of the plutocracy, last year had “Tax the Rich” written on the back of her custom-made dress at the Met Gala, where a table cost up to $300,000. Opinion | Farewell to a strange year 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z They have been slowed but not defeated, and are unlikely to stop, driven as they are by the zealous desire to overthrow multiracial, pluralistic democracy and replacing with a semi-fascistic, apartheid-style plutocracy. The Trump paradox: America is sick of this guy — but we can't afford to turn away 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z America thus "inherited plutocracy as part of its 'cultural genotype,'" Turchin argues. A short history of civilizational collapse: Are we next — and how can we prevent it? 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z American politics has been broken by asymmetrical polarization and negative partisanship: On one side, the Republican fascists want to end multiracial, pluralistic democracy and replace it with a Christo-fascist apartheid plutocracy. Now CNN wants to be less "partisan": Will the media never learn its lesson? 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Undeterred, Donald Trump and the Republican fascist movement are escalating their attempts to end American democracy with the goal of creating a new apartheid Christian fascist plutocracy that will rule unopposed. Alexander Vindman on Trump as "cult leader" and the line from Jan. 6 to Putin's war on Ukraine 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Others in Trump's orbit are using him as a weapon to advance their own agenda of creating a new American apartheid Christian fascist plutocracy. Think Trump's first term was a nightmare? Wake up — if he wins again, the worst is yet to come 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Their ultimate goal is to replace American democracy with an apartheid Christian fascist plutocracy. Historian Linda Hirshman: We need a "revived feminist movement" ready to fight "white innocence" 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Or will they instead succumb to learned helplessness and quietly surrender to the "new normal" of a Christian fascist apartheid plutocracy where most Americans will be treated as second- or third-class citizens – if even that? Jan. 6 hearings: A national civics lesson on the dangers of fascism 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z None of that is important to Trump and his followers in the larger white right, who would prefer tyranny in the form of an Apartheid Christian-fascist plutocracy. "King Trump" dreams of a glorious return: It seems preposterous, but we laugh at our peril 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z A similarly tragic reality confronted Americans at the onset of World War II, which elevated propagandists for plutocracy like Henry Luce and imperialists like Churchill even as it crushed Hitler and the other Axis powers. We must defeat the enemies of democracy — but that doesn't just mean Putin 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z It is a perfect marriage for an age of plutocracy: Twitter with its serious problems and Elon Musk, the embodiment of those problems. Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Problem Masquerading as a Solution 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Almost a decade ago, researchers from Princeton University noted that the U.S. was becoming more of an oligarchy and plutocracy and less a democratic republic. Media gets it wrong on Elon Musk and Twitter: The issue is oligarchy, not "free speech" 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Putin's Russia is a plutocracy and a kleptocracy controlled by an oligarchic elite of white men. Don’t be fooled: The GOP love affair with Putin is worse than it looks 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z This looks like the tax system of a plutocracy. Column: Don't blame the IRS for its lousy service. Blame Congress 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Solidifying and deepening that subservience now would consolidate the plutocracy and extreme inequality of U.S.-led neoliberalism, not lead to a way out of it. What's going to happen in Ukraine? Total war, nothing at all or somewhere in between? 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Nor is it about the competition between the ideologies of capitalism and socialism, nor the various threats to democracy, such as autocracy, plutocracy and kleptocracy. America's deepest and most dangerous divide isn't between Democrats and Republicans 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z It concludes with the words, “Never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or by predatory poverty.” Review | For poor defendants, minor crimes can lead to devastating debts 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z And even though I disagree with many of the far-left positions by some Seattle politicians, I’ll take socialist utopia over libertarian plutocracy any day of the week. Texas is in my rearview mirror, but one-party control in Olympia is giving me déjà vu 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z It probably helped that by the time Cooper fils came of age, the Vanderbilt fortune, once among the greatest in American plutocracy, had pretty much gone pfft. Review | How to fritter away a family fortune 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z More specifically, it envisions a nation dominated by a white male plutocracy in which Christian nationalism and authoritarianism are protected by law and where property will always be valued above human rights and human dignity. Rev. William J. Barber II: America is now at the "most critical time, between life and death" 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z America may not have kings and queens and titled nobility, but it has a plutocracy and a system of dynastic wealth that operates much the same way. Why Americans hate and fear the poor: Joanne Samuel Goldblum on the price of inequality 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Haynes “saw in these instruments a method by which groups with little power could ... compete with a plutocracy that he believed had corrupted American politics at every level.” Column: They warned that recall elections would empower special interests. They were right 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z “It’s all mythology and fear and guilt that keeps the plutocracy and the greed in line above everybody else,” Tom said. An American Kingdom 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z As in the old Confederacy, the ultimate goal is to create a type of white "Christian" plutocracy and racial authoritarian state. Six months later: What have we learned from Jan. 6? Not enough to stop it from happening again 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z That last part is true enough, but to label America's plutocracy using race-neutral language is to willfully ignore the role of racism and sexism in creating and perpetuating such a system. American apartheid and the wealth gap: How white supremacy drives inequality 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z We don’t want to ding you for succeeding but we’re halfway to a plutocracy here. Opinion | Fat Cats on a Hot Tin Roof 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z She also supports the Republican Party campaign to turn the United States into a fascist apartheid plutocracy. Never forget that Liz Cheney helped produced Trumpism — and could be worse in the long run 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z These monsters want to overthrow America's secular and multiracial democracy and replace it with an American apartheid plutocracy. America's right-wing political monsters are real — and they are coming for you 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z “The plutocracy, which draw very large amounts from the Upper Silesian mines, did not recognize Upper Silesians as human beings, but only as tools,” he wrote in his 1848 report on the typhus epidemic. Will COVID Force Public Health to Confront America’s Epic Inequality? 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z “This looks like the tax system of a plutocracy,” they wrote. Column: How often have tax cuts for the rich trickled down to the rest of us? Never 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z We are constantly being told that we are only one election away from woke multicultural socialism without God or guns, or a Christian white-nationalist plutocracy. Perspective | Battle over $1.9 trillion covid relief package is as much about political optics as economic necessity 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z They were committed to a racialized plutocracy led by propertied White males. Opinion | My church will replace our Black Lives Matter sign. Will America replace its racist myth? 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Democracy's genuflection to plutocracy isn't hard to detect in convergences among participants in Sonnenfeld's meeting. Corporate capital and Trump's coup: Will business elites take a stand? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z The technocrats are again going to be exposed once again as impotent — or complicit — as plutocracy entrenches. Joe Biden can't bring back "normal" politics — nobody can. We need to reinvent it 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z Donald Trump and the plutocracy, in a country controlled by gangster capitalism, is a moral obscenity. Ralph Nader's election wisdom: "In the swing states, you have to vote for Joe Biden" 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z To be blunt, we now live in a plutocracy. Plutocrats control the U.S. political system, but they can still be defeated 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z Instead of following long-accepted socio-economic practices, President Trump uses lies and illusion to create a febrile web of illicitness — part oligarchy, part plutocracy and part kleptocracy — that is characteristic of so many developing nations. 5 epic failures of Donald Trump that illustrate the U.S.’s decline 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Republican devotion to the cause of plutocracy seems a persuasive explanation for the party’s otherwise baffling behavior, but it isn’t the only conceivable one. Review | Explaining the GOP’s mix of plutocrats and populists 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z A fundamental concern of the founding fathers was excessive political power, be it via monarchy or plutocracy. Bernie's no radical: his agenda harks back to the framing of the U.S. constitution 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z The US is, by any reasonable measure, a plutocracy. Trashing Michael Bloomberg does little to find a credible Democrat challenger | Nick Cohen 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The knockout blow to plutocracy would be to eliminate private money from our political system — not just elections, but the revolving door between elected office and corporate jobs, strict limits on lobbyists, and so on. Plutocrats control the U.S. political system, but they can still be defeated 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z He encounters the occasional protester, including one who jumped on stage recently in Chattanooga, Tennessee, yelling, “This is not democracy. This is a plutocracy!” Bloomberg makes debate stage, facing Dem rivals for 1st time 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z But those people are an extreme minority – a literal plutocracy – in this nation. Trump's greatest vulnerability is the economy – just ask poor Americans | Reverend William Barber 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z In essence, the World Economic Forum is the high priest of plutocracy, ie rule by the ultra-wealthy. The high priests of plutocracy all meet at Davos. What good can come from that? | Cas Mudde 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The Morgan enterprise survived — it’s the banking giant now headed by Dimon — though the family’s name remains a potent symbol of plutocracy. Column: Billionaires emerge as the defining campaign issue for 2020 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z Big money will never stop trying to weasel its way back in, to restore plutocracy, to control everything. Plutocrats control the U.S. political system, but they can still be defeated 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z We need fire-breathing warriors, rallying those who have been bulldozed by the plutocracy. Cutting a deal with Trump on free trade will not win a single vote for Democrats | Hamilton Nolan 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z “The central issue is we’re developing into a plutocracy,” he told the New York Times. Paul Volcker, US Fed chief under Carter and Reagan, dies at 92 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z But one aspect of that earlier conservative movement has continued to chug along with its long-term project to transform the U.S. into an undemocratic, quasi-authoritarian plutocracy. Bill Barr's alternate universe "investigation" has a goal: Right-wing authoritarian rule 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z This is the tax system of a plutocracy. Opinion | How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z "In short, Republicans used white identity to defend wealth inequality. They undermined democracy to uphold plutocracy," Hacker and Pierson write. Plutocrats control the U.S. political system, but they can still be defeated 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z So what the party of big business has been doing is dividing people by race in order to build support for plutocracy. Donald Trump and dog-whistle politics: How to beat him — and build long-term progressive victory 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z Ultimately, this brand of libertarianism is really just plutocracy. The Koch Brothers tried to build a plutocracy in the name of freedom | Nathan Robinson 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z A corrupt alliance between the governing party and its supporters in the corporate plutocracy sustains the incumbent regime. Trump's words of warning: "I always find a way to win." Take him seriously 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Warren has called herself a “capitalist to my bones” who usually believes that markets just need to be better regulated; Sanders sees democratic socialism as the solution to fighting authoritarianism and plutocracy. What to watch for during Night 1 of the Democratic debate in Detroit 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Like church and state then, plutocracy now is not transparent — so let’s not pretend otherwise. LACMA’s concrete wall problem: Why a chic design comes with consequences 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z First, by striking at the heart of plutocracy and breaking up the extreme concentration of wealth, through more robust tax policy and antitrust enforcement, along with corporate governance and labor law reform. How to fix capitalism: eight expert solutions for America's broken system 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The awkwardness for American Jews is not their part in America’s plutocracy but their rationalizations of Netanyahu’s theocracy. Israelis vs. Jews: An Issue in Netanyahu’s Campaign—and for the AIPAC Conference 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z We either return to a progressive tax policy or continue the descent into plutocracy. Readers Respond to the November 2018 Issue 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z A: I think in many ways the forces of plutocracy and of conservatism have been better than progressives at understanding the importance of cultivating ideas. Fightback against the billionaires: the radicals taking on the global elite 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z The American psyche seems to toggle between populism and plutocracy, between Sinclair Lewis and Ayn Rand. Opinion | There are so many reasons to turn against football. For now, resist the urge. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z On local golf courses, the west coast’s wealthy swung their clubs just yards from blazing fires in photographs that could not have been more perfectly staged to skewer the country’s indifferent plutocracy. ‘The devastation of human life is in view’: what a burning world tells us about climate change 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z Trimming the ultra earnings of the ultra-rich would zing the plutocracy and make money for the government. Opinion | A Democrat is proposing a dubious tax idea — and it’s not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Greenfield, who was once named “America's foremost visual chronicler of the plutocracy” by the New York Times, is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and photographer. “Generation Wealth” documentarian Lauren Greenfield on how the rich are destroying civilization 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z An understanding seems to be rising that it’s not about left v right or communism v capitalism any more, but about humanism v plutocracy. Fightback against the billionaires: the radicals taking on the global elite 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z That continues in today’s struggle to decide whether we will be governed by a representative democracy or ruled by an oligarchic plutocracy. Opinion | The struggle to preserve our rights 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z You might argue, and quite rightly, that “We, the people” have always subverted the truths we’d held to be self-evident, beginning with slavery and continuing with plutocracy. Our republic is in crisis — and it’s killing us. Can we really claim we didn’t see it coming? 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “The central issue is we’re developing into a plutocracy,” he told me. Paul Volcker, at 91, Sees ‘a Hell of a Mess in Every Direction’ 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Schools like Harvard exist to perpetuate the plutocracy. Why the left must go beyond electoral politics: Chris Hedges and David Talbot in conversation 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Countries that were once democracies are becoming plutocracies; plutocracies are becoming oligarchies; oligarchies are becoming kleptocracies. The real Goldfinger: the London banker who broke the world 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Both public policy and day-to-day norms are being reoriented by a form of backlash politics that emphasizes an explicitly white-supremacist agenda and blends Christian nationalism, racial authoritarianism, plutocracy, sexism and nativism. How broad is support for white nationalism? Last week’s Unite the Right flop isn’t the whole... 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z It’s only a certain class of people—the international plutocracy—that encounters these kinds of problems. Rick Gates Delivers a Public Lesson on Money Laundering and Political Corruption 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Over the last 30 years, Ms. Greenfield has become America’s foremost visual chronicler of the plutocracy, and those who hope to join its ranks. Follow the Money (Then Take a Picture) 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z In a time of confused plutocracy, everyone wanted a variant of what William James later called “the moral equivalent of war.” What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z But as we devolve from a republic to a crass plutocracy, the ways of Trump, Pruitt and many others becomes normal. Scott Pruitt Before the E.P.A.: Fancy Homes, a Shell Company and Friends With Money 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z That was laissez-faire capitalism with a plutocracy at its best. Who Is Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s New President? 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Trump’s extremism — his combination of plutocracy, misogyny and nativism — has encouraged ideological ambition in his opponents. Opinion | American politics are radicalizing. The damage could last generations. 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Such behavior merely reinforces what most of us already knew, The United States has shifted from democracy to plutocracy. Lawsuit Over Trump’s Ties to His Businesses Is Allowed to Advance 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z What is good for the goose is good for the gander... unless we are a plutocracy/autocracy where the rules only apply to those not in power. Is America a ‘Nation of Immigrants’? Immigration Agency Says No 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z During the past decade, ordinary people around the world have been organising against plutocracy and demanding more democratic and inclusive institutions, whether in the Arab spring, Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matter. Talk is cheap: the myth of the focus group 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Where it once delivered equality, liberalism now offers plutocracy; instead of liberty, appetitiveness regulated by a surveillance state; instead of true intellectual and religious freedom, growing conformity and mediocrity. Opinion | Is There Life After Liberalism? 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z America is now unofficially but effectively a plutocracy. Republicans Sought to Undercut an Unfavorable Analysis of the Tax Plan 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Only one more example of our continuing downward spiral to plutocracy. The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death. 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z And ambitious tax reform has been tabled in favor of a few tax cuts that are likely to reaffirm public impressions that the “P” in GOP stands for “plutocracy.” Opinion | GOP leaders made a huge wager — and they’re losing 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z And there are those who believe plutocracy is nothing new; America has always been ruled by an elite class, but through the decades she has marched, slow and steady, toward inclusiveness. Democrats Say Citizens United Should Die. Here’s Why That Won’t Happen 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z But it’s time to put the apologists for plutocracy back on the defensive, where they belong — not least for their own sake. Perspective | Being rich wrecks your soul. We used to know that. 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z MC: This is not populism; this is a plutocracy. Former Commish Michael Copps: “Maybe the worst FCC I’ve ever seen” 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z They are the visible point men in the campaign to turn the present U.S. plutocracy into an outright kleptocracy — like Yeltsin’s Russia. There’s a little bit of Donald Trump in all of us 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Much less satisfying is the book’s overarching arguments about the dangers of the “creeping plutocracy” and the pervasive corrupting influence of inequality. The New Gilded Age in Philanthropy 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z They believe the country is on the verge of plunging into plutocracy. Democrats Say Citizens United Should Die. Here’s Why That Won’t Happen 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Well, at the very least we are consistent in staying a plutocracy. 5 Key Questions on Trump’s Plans for ‘Maybe the Biggest Tax Cut’ 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z I can understand wanting power for power’s sake even if I wish leadership looked less like plutocracy. Trump: 100 days that shook the world – and the activists fighting back 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z But in this case the opacity is obscuring the rise of a new American plutocracy. Opinion | Trump’s no populist. He’s a swamp monster. 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z So how do we stave off the threat of plutocracy today? Opinion | Can the American republic survive extreme economic inequality? 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z “It’s a joke, but a serious joke. Serbia is a plutocracy and humour is the best way to fight this. Serbia needs revitalisation.” 'Only donkeys don’t change': Serbian PM says he's ready to be president 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z To empower the Republicans is to embolden all the forces of anti-democratic plutocracy and the interests of the crony capitalists. Scott Pruitt, Trump’s E.P.A. Pick, Backed Industry Donors Over Regulators 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z These are not people who are going to finance any sort of working-class populism; they instead intend to use the Donald’s victory to impose a plutocracy over America. Trump’s having a ball: His inauguration may add up to just another opportunity for the rich to pay to play 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z Can Trump marginalize those who question his plutocracy? Opinion | Trump’s no populist. He’s a swamp monster. 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z With the abolition of the estate tax, the Republicans would finally realise their long-held ambition of creating a dynastic plutocracy – a far cry from the “equality of opportunity” maxim the party once trumpeted. What the US economy doesn't need from Donald Trump | Joseph Stiglitz 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z Putting Hillary in place would have continued the plutocracy. The Whatchamacallit Economy 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z He imagines a plutocracy shut away “in gated communities or in elite cities, perhaps guarded by autonomous military robots and drones.” Our Automated Future 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z For example, members of the fast-growing middle class complain about the emergence of a new plutocracy. China has gained hugely from globalisation 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z He also has business dealings around the globe, including countless hidden partnerships with other members of the global plutocracy. Donald Trump and the “twin insurgency”: He’s half plutocrat, half criminal and entirely ruthless 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The true constitution is plutocracy tempered by scandal. Trump is no outsider: he mirrors our political culture | George Monbiot 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Bear in mind that development and growth are his priority—one reason for his sky-high popularity in a country with an entrenched plutocracy lording it over legions of urban and rural poor. Duterte’s pivot 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The Daily Stormer, which bills itself as the premier publication of the alt-right, was less delicate, praising the speech for exposing the mass media as “the lying Jewish mouthpiece of international finance and plutocracy.” The Plot Against America 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Trump, I predicted, would lose so spectacularly that the GOP would be forced to transform itself, surrendering its mindless obstructionism, science denial, xenophobia and plutocracy. Even after Trump loses, the GOP is still toast 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The first populists saw themselves representing the “people”, including farmers and blue-collar workers, against the “money power” or “plutocracy”. Us v Them: the birth of populism | John B Judis | the long read 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z For those concerned about the undue influence of the ultra-wealthy in US. politics, Bernie’s success offers a glimmer of hope that we might be able to halt the country’s march toward plutocracy. We need small donors to halt the march to plutocracy | Kenneth Pennington 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Like the park system, the estate tax is a fundamentally American notion, an absolutely democratic intervention against a drift toward plutocracy and extreme wealth imbalances. Long Live the Estate Tax 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The third option is simply to take over the country and effectively turn it into a plutocracy. Trump Seems More the Result of a Shift Among White Men Than the Cause of It 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s a franchise, like McDonald’s, and the league itself is not a meritocracy but a plutocracy, open to anyone who can afford the price of admission. The Kings of Seventeenth Place 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z “Bernie is reaction to too much plutocracy; Trump is reaction to too much political correctness. America needs change. Business as usual is just not going to work.” 'He’s our hero': Hindu organisers urge Indian Americans to vote for Trump 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z Our rigged system leads us to plutocracy: a system of government controlled directly by the wealthy few that serves the interests of the wealthy few. We need small donors to halt the march to plutocracy | Kenneth Pennington 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Or to be more blunt and follow political comedian Lee Camp’s analysis, the Sanders campaign is making the US plutocracy more obvious than ever. Bernie Sanders is not a sore loser: Our democracy is screwed unless we fix the unfair rules 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z All this for a 74-year-old Democratic Socialist who is openly taking on the corporate plutocracy that’s been knocking down the middle class and holding down the poor. Why Bernie Sanders will, should and must stay in the race 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z “The governed perceive the government as corrupt. The vast majority of Americans are convinced that the wealthy and well-connected call the shots in Washington. . . . Americans are increasingly convinced that a plutocracy has taken hold.” A manifesto to mend American politics 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z In his 1936 acceptance speech, FDR denounced “economic royalists” who were laboring to replace American democracy with an American plutocracy. How the Great Society Reforms of the 1960s Were Different From the New Deal 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z In the past few decades, plutocracy, globalization and compliant governments have betrayed workers, most of whom are white. No one will be able to stop the political violence Donald Trump is unleashing 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Yes most people are angry and the Republican-fostered American plutocracy is the reason. The Trump-Berlusconi Syndrome 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The American people are tired of being lied to by politicians who will say anything to get elected, and then turn around and to the bidding of the plutocracy. 2 Front-Runners, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, Find Their Words Can Be Weapons 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z With her, the eventual demise of democracy will lead to a fascist plutocracy. 'Not even my wife knows': secret Donald Trump voters speak out 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The concerns about plutocracy, political corruption, technological change, and mass immigration were similar, and the reformers’ high-minded cures were forerunners of today’s ideas for limiting campaign funds and drawing congressional districts in nonpartisan ways. Extreme Politics in Iowa and New Hampshire 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z By the late nineteenth century, average Americans felt excluded from a representative system they saw as becoming a plutocracy. Direct Democracy May Be Key to a Happier American Democracy 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z But judged by his platform, Sanders should be directly confronted and asked why his political imagination is so active against plutocracy, but so limited against white supremacy. The Daily 202: Cruz and Clinton each lose another news cycle as the Iowa caucuses approach 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Coates wrote that Mr. Sanders “should be directly confronted and asked why his political imagination is so active against plutocracy, but so limited against white supremacy.” Ta-Nehisi Coates Criticizes Bernie Sanders Over His Opposition to Reparations 1457-01-28T05:00:00Z What was different from previous debates was Sanders’s eagerness to go on the offensive against Clinton, and particularly to highlight her most vulnerable area: her ties to the Wall Street plutocracy. Bernie Sanders’s Big Night 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z All of our concerns about their political activity and about plutocracy and corruption and campaign finance in general are really misplaced. The Kochs have already won: How their billions remade the GOP in their own image 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z The United States is degenerating into a plutocracy as democracy is overwhelmed by money and negative ads and the collapse of serious journalism. Bernie Sanders exclusive: “I never wanted to be a part of such a soulless politics” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Without making a clear break from the GOP’s plutocracy, Trumpism is shown to be nothing more than Republicanism with the volume turned up. Donald Trump’s tax scheme screw-up: Why his plan is bad for him and the GOP both 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z “But the chances of him winning at the primary, or even at the national level, are virtually nil in our system, which is not a democracy but a plutocracy.” Inside the mind of Bernie Sanders: unbowed, unchanged, and unafraid of a good fight 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z "All hail an uncomplicated, super show," continued the writer, who described the musical - last seen in the West End in 2005 - as "a celebration of late-Fifties plutocracy". High Society musical ends Kevin Spacey Old Vic tenure - BBC News 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The focus of too many lawmakers is on the big donors and big businesses that fund their campaigns. We live in a plutocracy: government by the very wealthy. Gyrocopter operator delivered a message that Americans support 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Because Clintons and Bushes are involved, we will also talk about nepotism, inherited wealth and plutocracy. When it comes to politics, the U.S. and Britain could learn from each other 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z They want to hear from Mrs Clinton how to “move from a plutocracy back to a democracy”, says Mrs Fuller Clark. A contest, or a coronation? 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z She contented herself with a tweet about Bush’s ties to the plutocracy: “Jeb Handlers will spin #CPAC2015 appearance as ‘brave,’ and ‘held firm,’ ‘didn’t back down,’ to reassure #DonorClass that he’s the one.” Jeb Bush Escapes Unscathed From the Conservative Den 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z A man who identified himself as a D.C. lawyer warned that “the United States is rapidly descending into a Koch brothers plutocracy!” The FEC’s farcical open hearing 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z Our kids will become risk averse profit seeking widgets, cogs in the wheel of an ever growing plutocracy. Education Secretary Says Administration Is Committed to Testing 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The Clintons may be wealthy, but they are certainly not part of the permanent plutocracy as are the Bush family. Clinton, Bush and the 2016 Presidential Election 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z Yet despite the economic recovery, it is precisely these voters, particularly the white middle and working classes, who, for now, have deserted the Democrats for the GOP, the assumed party of plutocracy. The Demographics That Sank The Democrats In The Midterm Elections 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z The dapper, 89-year-old Greenberg goes by the folksy moniker “Hank,” but he once personified the financial plutocracy. The Bailout Reunion Trial 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The truth is that a lot of what’s going on in American politics is, at root, a fight between democracy and plutocracy. Plutocrats against democracy 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z The electoral reality, however, suggests a narrow plutocracy in which the privilege of birth outranks ideology, charisma or achievement. Blue blood: the American dynasties who dominate Democratic politics 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z She is the only one I see who would take on the "plutocracy" that is destroying our institutions. Clinton, Bush and the 2016 Presidential Election 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z Our government resembles more of a plutocracy – rule by the wealthy – than a Constitutional republic. Amend the Constitution to Declare Corporations Are Not People 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z It is an oligarchy, or maybe a plutocracy. Our Schools Are Un-American. Video Games Can Fix That 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z Benefit cuts will urge mean-spiritedness that despises those below, to distract from a swelling plutocracy above. Isolated and xenophobic: Britain after a Tory victory 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z The return of plutocracy to America was no accident. How America became uncompetitive and unequal A specter is haunting Europe and the U.S.—the specter of plutocracy. Piketty's Capital: An Economist's Inequality Ideas Are All the Rage 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. What Timothy Geithner Really Thinks 2014-05-08T17:00:02Z What hit me that day was the possibility that my happy, postwar middle-class world was the exception, and that the plutocracy we were gradually becoming was the norm. Plutocracy without end: Why the 1 percent always defeats the middle class 2014-03-30T11:00:00Z For Mr Deaton, America serves as an example of the economic and political threats to well-being that come from plutocracy. Economic inequality: In sickness and in health 2013-10-10T15:00:40Z The result: a slowing of ordinary living standards, the rise of a global plutocracy, and a dangerous hike in instability. A boost to wages is the route out of the UK's economic crisis 2013-07-01T14:00:01Z FrankBlank @ Republicans are - self announced - the official party or racism and plutocracy. The Unwinding: How to Reverse 40 Years of American Decline 2013-06-06T22:35:31Z There are those, like the German historian Oswald Spengler, who believe that civilizations decay and die, that democracy ultimately lapses into plutocracy. The Unwinding: How to Reverse 40 Years of American Decline 2013-06-06T20:05:23Z The rise of the plutocracy is not the inevitable result of irresistible global forces. Britain can no longer afford to bankroll the rich 2013-06-01T23:06:10Z One of the outstanding features of the new plutocracy is that they are working rich: corporate bosses, talented traders, hedge-funders. The elite boast of little sleep, but it's those at the bottom who really suffer 2013-05-06T19:00:02Z The state of the media, lack of accountability within social institutions, and a well-documented corruption in the plutocracy, all reflections our cultural priorities, surely deserve significant blame. The Little "Nudges" that Would Make Even Churchill Proud 2013-02-10T01:20:30Z A progressive tax system should maintain or reduce income inequality so that our society is more of a meritocracy than a plutocracy. Letters: Letters: Income, Taxes and Math 2013-01-05T21:22:08Z “If we don’t find some way to respond to this, it’s going to turn us into a plutocracy, where a very few powerful people control the public agenda,” said former Ohio governor Ted Strickland. Dark Money: The Rise of Outside Spending 2012-11-06T19:35:37Z Chrystia Freeland, an observant chronicler of the plutocracy, said last week that the political power of the top 1% will grow as inequality increases and its reactionary views will become ever more influential. Britain can no longer afford to bankroll the rich 2013-06-01T23:06:10Z “Our plutocracy now lives like the British in colonial India: in the place and ruling it, but not of it,” Mr. Lofgren wrote. Currents: America Losing Sight of the Future 2012-09-07T16:20:46Z As we report today, new research by the campaign group Tax Justice Network suggests a global plutocracy has exploited gaps in cross-border tax rules to hide an extraordinary $21tn of wealth offshore in tax havens. Bank secrecy masks a world of crime and destruction 2012-07-21T23:06:41Z The commercialism, the heavy-handed security, the ostentatious plutocracy and phoney patriotism of the modern Olympics are out of all proportion to the cause. The craving for massive live events is ruining our cities 2012-07-17T19:34:44Z If it chooses to bring back the drachma, that is its choice, but that is only allowing the tax-evading corrupt plutocracy who run Greece to continue unreined. Euro crisis: use Greece as a springboard for change 2012-06-16T21:15:53Z Back in Europe, the Continental plutocracy is putting its money into old-fashioned bricks and mortar. IHT Rendezvous: Finding New Ways to Separate the Rich From Their Cash 2012-06-05T11:25:54Z To turn this government into government by plutocracy or government by a mob would be to repeat on a larger scale the lamentable failures of the world that is dead. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z Rude plenty and coarse splendour characterized the entertainments and the dwellings of the early Victorian plutocracy, as they had marked the hospitality of our Saxon or Norman ancestors. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z As far as they were driven by the course of events on to the path of the political struggle, they, as lower middle-class theoreticians, preferred democracy, not only to plutocracy, but to revolutionary dictatorship. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z Today, as the world economy is being reshaped by the technology revolution and globalization, the resulting economic transformation is creating a new gilded age and a new plutocracy. Some See Two New Gilded Ages, Raising Global Tensions 2012-01-22T23:35:03Z He took a house in Belgravia and installed himself there among the aristocracy and plutocracy of London. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z It was, like the rest of the world, a land of plutocracy, convention, servility. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Growth in England from early days of Hebrew plutocracy. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z But it was something even to have eaten pumpkin pie with the plutocracy. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z And nothing would content him save that others should share the blessings which attend acquaintance with plutocracy. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z To formulate such a demand, even by inference, is to play into the hands of the plutocracy.' A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z The American plutocracy has developed upon a superstructure of Puritanism, and therefore, in America, hypocrisy is necessary. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z By the time that the house of Brunswick was established on the throne, the fabric of Anglo-Jewish plutocracy had well nigh built itself up. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Behind the Richistanis’ mansions, you’ll often find a pile of debt: “They form a Potemkin plutocracy ever fearful of being exposed.” Billionaires Go Broke, Repo Men Grab Gulfstreams, Yachts: Books 2011-11-03T04:39:28Z As a poster I admired at the park last Wednesday succinctly put it: “We want democracy, not plutocracy.” Economix Blog: Nancy Folbre: Storming the Capitalist Castle 2011-10-17T09:00:48Z During the formative period of their national character the Jews lived under a law which made plutocracy and pauperism equally impossible among them. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z The fight of our age is a fight against a plutocracy bred of Liberalism. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z For some reason, this is not an awareness that seems to have spread to the British plutocracy. Warren Buffett is an example to British billionaires 2011-08-25T19:00:02Z Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA A country where a plutocracy is firmly in control. US economy needs to rid itself of debt addiction 2011-07-31T17:00:01Z The other organs of plutocracy though less lavish of editorial space, employed their news columns to the same end. The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike 2011-05-02T02:00:15.510Z To call Lerner an "economic terrorist," as Beck does, is itself a kind of terrorism, trying to frighten Americans into disowning their own economic heritage and protecting the plutocracy that runs the country. Glenn Beck, economic terrorist 2011-03-23T21:24:00Z Tocqueville, A. de, socialism and democracy, 19; democratic passion for equality, 24; middle-class materialization, 24; political necessity of religion, 25; the plutocracy, 186. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z To the empire of birth and privilege was to succeed the empire of the shekel; to the rule of do-nothing kings, the rule of do-nothing plutocracy. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z Anyone who does anything that empowers the little people or that threatens the wealth and power of the plutocracy must be destroyed. The leaked campaign to attack WikiLeaks and its supporters 2011-02-11T10:12:00Z We went to lunch with a friend of mine whose plutocracy was not entirely intact, and but for one instructive incident it was an ordinary civilized meal. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z The old chattel-slave-owning aristocracy of the South, which was the backbone of the Democratic party, has been supplanted by a child-slave plutocracy. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z First are the Tea Party people who range from pure libertarian Ron and Rand Paul types to defenders of plutocracy. Tea Party Republicans May Crack Party Discipline: Ralph Nader 2011-01-10T02:03:04Z At least the present season has brought a refreshing challenge to a Premier League plutocracy that was in danger of becoming a cliche. Money still rules but Premier League in danger of becoming democratic 2010-12-31T13:35:59Z Protection placed the common people at the mercy of capitalists and landlords, and increased the political power of plutocracy. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The two kings of American plutocracy are Messrs. Vanderbilt and Astor. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z Of course not: "shareholders" are a sham force in the self-perpetuating plutocracy of company life. Spending review: Ya-boo won't work. Labour's response must be forensic 2010-10-19T07:00:00Z In the Premier League plutocracy everyone knows his place. QPR's march recalls the days when football's plot was less predictable 2010-10-01T12:32:00Z Lane launched a series of magazines devoted to glorifying this culture—publications with names like Trader Monthly and Dealmaker—that specialized in stroking the emerging plutocracy of hedge fund managers, traders, and private equity speculators. Book Review: Wall Street's Greediest 2010-07-20T00:05:00Z But its essential principles are national jealousy against foreign peoples, and the abuse of the common people by the plutocracy. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z The second aristocracy is the aristocracy of money—plutocracy. Jonathan and His Continent Rambles Through American Society 2010-12-20T17:12:16.420Z Mr. Buffett warned Congress in 2007 that without an estate tax, the United States runs the risk of becoming a “dynastic plutocracy.” What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman 2010-06-12T18:45:00Z It also attacked big business for subverting the foundations of democracy by capturing all three branches of government and transforming them into coercive instruments of rule by a new plutocracy. The strange history of Tea Party populism 2010-05-03T21:20:00Z Only a plutocracy sprung from race divisions at home could profit by race-subjection abroad, and the only alternative to race-subjection is equal representation in Congress. Races and Immigrants in America Bontoux promised to break up the alleged financial monopoly of the Jews and Protestants and to found a new plutocracy in its stead, which should be mainly Roman Catholic and aristocratic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" The Socialist party is the only party of the people, the only party opposed to the rule of the plutocracy, the only truly democratic party in the world. Labor and Freedom In the days of the C�sars it had been the favorite colonial resort of the plutocracy and aristocracy of Rome, and it had been the birthplace of the Emperors Hadrian, Trajan and Theodosius. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Man is morally and religiously free; and from this false liberalism the tyranny of plutocracy and the slavery of the poor has been developed. The Progressionists, and Angela. In proportion as they move up in the scale through the entrance of immigrants in the lower positions, they transfer their allegiance from democracy to plutocracy. Races and Immigrants in America The nobility both of the ancien r�gime and the empire stood aloof, and politics were abandoned for the most part to professional adventurers, while the bourgeoisie assumed the form of an omnipotent plutocracy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" It was all H. R. could do to force his way through the plutocracy in the Imperial Box. H. R. Here again, as in the case of the men, we must not speak of the aristocracy and the plutocracy of the two countries. Her Royal Highness Woman It is likely to become even more dangerous if turned over to an American plutocracy for its elucidation. American World Policies Permitting and encouraging plutocracy, they hope to see the dispossessed masses take possession when conditions become intolerable. Races and Immigrants in America No doubt the aristocratic inhabitants of Mayfair and Belgravia in London, and the plutocracy of New York, may think all this very small, and these French people very uninteresting. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things In which case these things will necessarily become that basis of monopolistic property on which the coming plutocracy will establish itself. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism Politically, as well as socially, America is a plutocracy; her democracy is spiritual and intellectual; and its essence is, the denial of all superiorities save that of wealth. A Modern Symposium For feudal magnates and the nouveaux riches he had scant respect, holding that both the aristocracy and the plutocracy had used their political power for selfish ends. War Letters of a Public-School Boy More immigration requires perpetually more and still more, till the resulting plutocracy seeks to save itself by servile labor. Races and Immigrants in America An aristocracy or plutocracy has taken charge of domestic and foreign affairs, and has made the decisions on which community well-being has depended. The Next Step A Plan for Economic World Federation Go to Venice, go to Florence, and you will find a glorious harvest of pictures and architecture, sown and reaped by a mercantile plutocracy. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism Whether Uncle Piper is a type of Australian plutocracy need hardly be discussed. Australian Writers A party subsisting on illusions, concealments, and hypocrisies, could hardly survive in the atmosphere engendered by a real fight like that between plutocracy and Socialism. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals It is now understood to have been simply the legal recognition of an incipient plutocracy establishing itself under the forms of democracy. Races and Immigrants in America It is to that task that the leaders of the American plutocracy have committed themselves, and it is from the results of that accomplished work that they are turning to new labors. The American Empire This is still more apparent in the American plutocracy, where perhaps half the women appear to be artificially sterilized spenders of money upon frivolous things. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism As I understand it, his meaning is that the same virtue which makes certain nations love equality, frugality and simplicity is also productive of a form of government which excludes aristocracy, plutocracy and royalty. The Cult of Incompetence If the pure Church has been corrupted in the course of two thousand years, what about the pure Republic that has rotted into a filthy plutocracy in less than a hundred? What I Saw in America The protective tariff was supposed to build up free American labor, but in Hawaii, with unrestricted immigration, it has handed us American plutocracy. Races and Immigrants in America Each invention, each labor saving device, each substitution of mechanical power that multiplies the productive capacity of industry at the same time increases the surplus at the disposal of the plutocracy. The American Empire "There have been few more searching studies of the rampant English plutocracy than is afforded by this brilliantly written volume." The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Equality, frugality and simplicity can all be found, according to Rousseau, in States where there is neither royalty nor aristocracy nor plutocracy. The Cult of Incompetence But before the progress of modern plutocracy had reached this stage, there was a predetermining cause for which there was a much better case. What I Saw in America And he saw, too, as no one to-day seems to perceive, the intimate connection between the preaching of false reform and the gripe of a sordid plutocracy. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Investment opportunities, of necessity, are eagerly sought by the plutocracy, since the law of their system is "Invest or perish"! The American Empire They represent us as virtually a plutocracy; but Mr. McKinley never was rich, and never was under the slightest suspicion of using his great office to acquire wealth. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Again, there was a whipsnake, and a toad, bloated as the aristocracy of old time, and puffed up as the plutocracy of to-day. He American plutocracy has never got itself respected like English aristocracy. What I Saw in America Hence one can understand that opposition to the policy of Stuart king, or Whig nobility, or Tory plutocracy, readily took the form of antagonism to the State as such. Freedom In Service Six Essays on Matters Concerning Britain's Safety and Good Government The American people were still thinking the thoughts of a competitive economic life when the cohorts of an organized plutocracy bore down upon them. The American Empire There is more pure plutocracy in Melanesia than in New York. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals By the mere health of his soul he could smell out the evil of a plutocracy. A History of the United States It is the American plutocracy and not the American press. What I Saw in America This mushroom plutocracy, whose representatives hold colossal fortunes acquired rather than earned, practically rule our business interests by virtue of the enormous opportunities afforded by their great wealth. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 Their first thought was of politics, and during the years immediately preceding the war they were busy with the problem of legislating goodness into the plutocracy. The American Empire We hear of plutocracy and tainted money, of the power of wealth, and the wickedness of corporations. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals I address myself to the British public through the medium of the Gleaner as the most liberal journal in London, and that most opposed to government by plutocracy. The Sins of Séverac Bablon But at least it is only by the decay of modern plutocracy, which seems already to have begun, that the secret of the structure even of this plutocratic palace can stand revealed. What I Saw in America It is not the plutocracy of wealth, or the aristocracy of learning, but the democracy of the heart that makes the world better and greater. Shakspere, Personal Recollections The plutocracy, with a united front, "went in" for the "defense of the United States,"—attacking the people on the side of their greatest weakness; playing upon their primitive emotions of fear and hate. The American Empire As payments for the services of the plutocracy they were unnecessary and foolishly lavish; as preparations for a renomination and reëlection, the two guiding factors in every plan of a President-elect, they were preposterous. The Plum Tree Because the danger of plutocracy forced itself on the people. Ethics in Service If they had been inns, it would have been far harder even for the power of modern plutocracy to root them out. What I Saw in America It is not unnaturally witty or brilliant; but exhibits exactly the traits which Norwegians of the higher commercial plutocracy are likely to exhibit. Essays on Scandinavian Literature The war gains of the plutocracy in the field of public control were important, as well as spectacular. The American Empire The yawp of socialism is excusably despised by plutocracy. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 The representative system, much abused as it is, is the system that has rescued us from plutocracy. Ethics in Service The only difference was that French democracy was allowed to develop its café, or multiply its tables, while English plutocracy prevented any such popular growth. What I Saw in America The face of democracy, suddenly seen hideously close, has scared the guardians of the reigning plutocracy half to death, and they have gone to the devil himself for aid. The Antichrist The plutocracy has unified its hold upon the country as a result of the war. The American Empire The great point with plutocracy and snobbery is to perpetuate themselves—to go on producing scions who will uphold for them future generations of selfishness and arrogance. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 We are confronted by a heartless, soulless plutocracy. The Red Conspiracy The Commons became, what they remained until the nineteenth century, a plutocracy representing either landed or commercial wealth. The Age of the Reformation In the present case my money is laid upon the plutocracy. The Antichrist The war gains of the American plutocracy at home were immense. The American Empire The United States seems to be standing at the parting of two ways, one of which leads back in a vicious circle to plutocracy and despotism, while the other advances towards a genuine pure democracy. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 With a general strike we can paralyze the plutocracy from coast to coast. The Red Conspiracy We were a plutocracy; which means that so long as a man had the house and the drinks, you asked no questions. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story It found resistance suddenly slackened by civil war within the plutocracy itself—one gang of traders falling upon another gang, to the tune of vast hymn-singing and yells to God. The Antichrist Throughout those years, while the Allies were bleeding and borrowing and paying, the American plutocracy was growing rich. The American Empire Already the law is beginning to recognize this principle, which is destined to revolutionize all the world; but we are not the leaders in this democracy, because our plutocracy is too strong. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 Monarchy, aristocracy, democracy, responsible forms of rule, have collapsed under plutocracy, which is irresponsible rule. Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is a plain tendency of all civilized governments toward plutocracy. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other Perhaps it has already passed its apogee; the plutocracy, chastened, shows signs of a new solidarity; the wheel continues to swing ’round. The Antichrist The Great War brought noteworthy advantages to the American plutocracy. The American Empire I'm no mealy mouth to curse plutocracy in order to please the mob. The Freebooters of the Wilderness He hated what he called the plutocracy, but no individual rich man. Gilbert Keith Chesterton A plutocracy might be even far worse than an aristocracy. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other But this combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. The Antichrist The logical goal of the American plutocracy is the economic and incidentally the political control of the world. The American Empire In '37 she settled whether she would be ruled by special interests, by a plutocracy, by an oligarchy. The Canadian Commonwealth The plutocracy that had bit by bit eaten into our aristocracy and gained ascendancy in the Govemment was not, like our ancient aristocracy, trained for the business and was utterly uninformed especially in foreign affairs. Gilbert Keith Chesterton So far the most successful limitation on plutocracy has come from aristocracy, for the prestige of rank is still great wherever it exists. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other On the Continent, the day is saved by the fact that the plutocracy tends to become more and more Jewish. The Antichrist The American ruling class—the plutocracy—must plan to dominate the earth; to exploit it, to exact tribute from it. The American Empire The answer is this: The masses of the citizens of Switzerland found it necessary to revolt against their plutocracy and the corrupt politicians who were exploiting the country through the representative system. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum Now it was merely plutocracy and it had become "an army without an enemy billeted on the people." Gilbert Keith Chesterton Nowhere in the world is the danger of plutocracy as formidable as it is here. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other This is not and never shall be a government either of plutocracy or of a mob. Public Speaking The American plutocracy is out to conquer the earth because it is to their interest to do so. The American Empire Hence, no pauperism to be compared with that of England; no plutocracy such as we have in America. Direct Legislation by the Citizenship through the Initiative and Referendum Hence came the same terrible peril in both England and America: that in the eyes of the new plutocracy the idea of manhood has gone. Gilbert Keith Chesterton The lobby is the army of the plutocracy. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other We hope that your aristocracy may render as great a service to the extravagant plutocracy of this country as your democracy has rendered to our democracy. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol. 1, January 9, 1915 What Americans Say to Europe The plutocracy exercises its power over the channels of public opinion in two ways,—the first, by a direct or business office control; and second, by an indirect or social prestige control. The American Empire The main factor which led up to these divisions was class dislike, embittered by the remembrance that both plutocracy and democracy started in life on an equal footing. Town Life in Australia They might overthrow the governing plutocracy and build again an England of freedom and sanity. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Jobbery is the vice of plutocracy, and it is the especial form under which plutocracy corrupts a democratic and republican form of government. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other Lucy supposed that the seemingly undreaming people who were Denis's friends were not rich enough; they hadn't reached plutocracy, where romance resides, but merely prosperity, which has fewer possibilities. The Lee Shore This is the direct control exercised by the plutocracy over the machinery of government. The American Empire Else we should feel all the evils of a plutocracy, purified neither by education nor public opinion--evils which have already made themselves apparent in the political system of Victoria. Town Life in Australia A new Jewish plutocracy came into being, and its growth excited jealousy and fear among the Russian mercantile class. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) In the United States the opponent of plutocracy is democracy. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other She did not know this disheveled woman with swollen eyes and a soiled breakfast cap and an ugly bathrobe and one foot bandaged like a caricature of a gouty member of plutocracy. The Lookout Man During this contest for power the plutocracy learned the value of the control of public opinion, and brought the whole machinery for the direction of public affairs under its domination. The American Empire The plutocracy of New South Wales have risen to wealth less rapidly than in Victoria, and have lived much more quietly and with little display. Town Life in Australia If Douglas had the slavocracy back of him and catered to it, he did not have plutocracy back of him. Children of the Market Place Can democracy develop itself and at the same time curb plutocracy? What Social Classes Owe to Each Other We were dined and wined by royalty and aristocracy and plutocracy and always the talk was of empire, empire, empire. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics Within the vitals of the economic system upon which it subsists the plutocracy has found a source of never-ending torment in the form of a constantly increasing surplus. The American Empire Nowhere, too, in the world is the ostentatious waste of the results of labour upon the antics of a frivolous plutocracy a more crying peril of our times than in America. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) Slavocracy is only one of the scales on the tail of the dragon of plutocracy. Children of the Market Place The Paris of the Conference, on the other hand, was democratic, with a strong infusion of plutocracy. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Have we not seen the democratic form of government lend itself to ill-concealed plutocracy in Europe and America? A History of Trade Unionism in the United States Thus the circle is continued—with the returns heaping up in the coffers of the plutocracy. The American Empire His acquaintance with the private life of the aristocracy and the plutocracy is so extensive that I can only wonder at his knowledge, his or marvel at wondrous powers of ready invention. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, July 18, 1891 He carried the box with him when he went from one place to another, and more than one fight was generated by his plutocracy. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines And all history testifies that the State which becomes a plutocracy is doomed indeed. Early Britain—Roman Britain He urged these social outcasts to rise against a bloated plutocracy battening on the ill-gotten wealth to which his audience had just as good a title. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History It strengthened the plutocracy at home; it gave the United States immense prestige abroad. The American Empire It is one of the very worst forms of a plutocracy. Recollections of a Long Life An Autobiography The private car, even more than the yacht, is the symbol of plutocracy, and gaping rustics were evidently impressed by its grandeur. The House of a Thousand Candles Without an aristocracy, without anything that can be called a plutocracy, without a solitary millionaire, New Zealand is also virtually without that hopeless thing, the hereditary pauper and begetter of paupers. The Long White Cloud This is sufficient reason for the fact that our public men have long been free from corruption; but, alas, how fast plutocracy is making its way in our time and generation! Bushido, the Soul of Japan How could the plutocracy—the discredited, vilified plutocracy—get public opinion? The American Empire Simultaneously all forms of luxury spread from the aristocracy to the plutocracy; while the middle and lower classes attained a degree of solid comfort which would a few years before have been impossible. Collections and Recollections An aristocracy is a secret society; and this is especially so when, as in the modern world, it is practically a plutocracy. All Things Considered Let us begin by considering what constructive forces may exist in this new plutocracy which already so largely sways American economic and political development. An Englishman Looks at the World It was a combination of all aristocracy and all plutocracy. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 The American plutocracy was magnified, deified, and consecrated to the task of making the world safe for democracy. The American Empire She disliked the new element of plutocracy in the social compound, and industrialism as a method of human development appeared to her singularly repulsive in its mechanical and unfeeling character. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale To prevent such an occurrence the plutocracy was obliged to keep the business of the town going at full speed. The Story of Mankind First, one has to ask: How far is the American plutocracy likely to be merely a wasteful and chaotic class, and how far is it likely to become consciously aristocratic and constructive? An Englishman Looks at the World "It's expensive," said Berry moodily, "but I don't see how else we can satisfactorily sustain the flow of bloated plutocracy which at present oozes from us." The Brother of Daphne What has the American plutocracy won at home as a result of the war? The American Empire As far back as history's dawn the rise of the plutocracy and the impoverishment of the common people have heralded the downfall of the state. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 12 Of course, such a "plutocracy" was forever at the mercy of the crowd. The Story of Mankind Their organised Christian State is nearer the organised State I want than our present plutocracy. An Englishman Looks at the World You have had no parallel since Judas Iscariot conspired with the plutocracy to betray the idol of the people—and even Judas had decency enough to hang himself as expiation for his infamy. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 In a superficial sense, at least, the Great War "made" the plutocracy at home and "made" the United States among the nations. The American Empire If the "agitators" cause a seismic upheaval that will wreck the plutocracy, what is to become of the fashionable preachers? Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 He lost his father's money in wheat speculation in Chicago—in one of the most successful of the plutocracy's constantly recurring raids upon the hoardings of the middle class. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise She would not have twaddled about principles—when everyone with eyeteeth cut ought to know that principles have departed from politics, now that both parties have been harmonized and organized into agencies of the plutocracy. The Conflict "Law of supply and demand," bawls Puck and all the other journalistic puppets of an impudent plutocracy. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 Far different is the position of the American plutocracy. The American Empire In the heart of a plutocracy tradesmen become cunning enough to be more fastidious than their customers. The Innocence of Father Brown Gold was the symbol of cruel, snobbish plutocracy; silver of upright democracy. The United States Since the Civil War The time had been when he—and the plutocracy generally—were compelled to come to the political bosses almost hat in hand. The Conflict And plutocracy will be in its turn executed by equality. Amiel's Journal As a ruling class the plutocracy feels the necessity of preserving and enlarging its privileges. The American Empire The essentially aristocratic policy of England now turned to a plutocracy, the despotism of Russia and Prussia, the immense complex of all other great modern states gives such nonsense the lie. Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita" Public spirit in the masses was dead or sleeping; the Commonwealth was a plutocracy. Caesar: a Sketch That had been Kelly's first "big killing" by working on the fears of the plutocracy. The Conflict The pomp and luxury of plutocracy inwrapped him, and he had a sudden sweet shuddering vision of himself dining with still others of the wealthy just because they were wealthy, and prominent, and successful. Under the Skylights In essence it is an empire, although the plain people do not know it, and even the members of the plutocracy are in many instances unaware of its true character. The American Empire As she passed on, followed by Miss Joyce,—the figure of dainty young plutocracy and her mentor,—Isabelle murmured, "I wonder if it has been good for her to move about so much!" Together The nearest approach to praise was the "Blacklock squeals on the Wall Street gang" in one of the sensational penny sheets that strengthen the plutocracy by lying about it. The Deluge The plutocracy, further, controlled all the legislative and executive machinery. The Conflict And, as woman to woman, the schoolteacher, who travelled the dreary path between the dingy cottage and the Everglade School, was as full of power and beauty as this velvety specimen of plutocracy. The Web of Life The United States had developed a plutocracy—a property holding class, that is, to all intents and purposes, the imperialist class—controlling and directing public policy. The American Empire What had become of the labor troubles, the schemes of the anarchists, the menace of the unemployed, the risk of a plutocracy, and all the evils that darkened the sky of that former day? Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World In a word, the growth of the plutocracy became vigorous. Equality But, thanks to Victor Dorn, the local graft was about to be taken away from the politicians and the plutocracy. The Conflict In 1830 England, nominally a monarchy, was in reality a plutocracy of about a hundred thousand men—landed nobles, gentry, and wealthy merchants—whose privileges dated back to fifteenth century conditions. A History of English Literature They do not form a true aristocracy, but a plutocracy, and are for the most part very poorly educated. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne Her dead mother's relatives were among the plutocracy of New York, but even the memory of the dead Eleanor seemed to have faded utterly out of their minds. A Terrible Secret Julian," he said, "this story of the subversion of the American Republic by the plutocracy is an astounding one. Equality Your followers will perish, but you'll come back, ready for the next treachery for which the plutocracy needs you. The Conflict He had his speech all really to warn the country that he thought a crowd of the plutocracy was goin' to get the bonds to resell to the public at advanced rates. A Gentleman from Mississippi Conceivably it may have to face a severe conflict with a middle-class plutocracy. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) There are plenty of titled aristocracy abroad—so I am told—ready to silver-gild their coronets by a union with plutocracy. A Terrible Secret If the power of the plutocracy in 1873 had been as the little finger of a man, in 1895 it was thicker than his loins. Equality In fact, the real bottom cause of the change was the "gentlemen's agreement" between the two party machines whereunder both entered the service of the same master, the plutocracy. The Conflict An oligarchy with a property qualification was a plutocracy. In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace The weapons of self-defense thus reserved by the thoughtful leaders were, in the course of generations, seized upon as the readiest tools of a shrewd plutocracy, which entrenched itself in power. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) British plutocracy has its cannoneer; but if the cannoneer happens to take fancies into his head the "whiff of grapeshot" goes the wrong way. Lectures and Essays They were not, of course, in any sense, truly popular governments at all, but merely masks for plutocracy, under which the rich were the real though irresponsible rulers! Equality It's something gained," observed Victor tranquilly, "when politicians have to denounce the plutocracy in order to get audiences and offices. The Conflict Canadians regard this influx with that queer fatalism which men adopt under plutocracy. Letters from America Rebellion against that plutocracy long seemed almost hopeless; but at last, in the year 1912, the fight was carried to a successful issue. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) For my own part I do not feel bound to pay to British plutocracy a respect which British plutocracy does not pay to humanity. Lectures and Essays The utter demoralization of California by the "bonanza era" of silver discovery, the rise of an invincible plutocracy, and the second reign of loose luxury are herein set forth. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance It would be many a year before the plutocracy could be routed out, before the people would have the intelligence and the persistence to claim and to hold their own. The Conflict You're bringing home Belle, and you want a character contrast—the daughter of the tenements and the princess of the plutocracy. The Pot Boiler In America we have the democratic weapons to break up our plutocracy whenever we desire to do so. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me Nor do I believe that even the particular phrase which has been deemed so fraught with treason to plutocracy would, if my critic examined it closely, seem to him so very objectionable. Lectures and Essays I am thinking of the great estates, some of which date from Norman times; I am thinking of the aristocracy, which we Americans repudiated in order to set up a plutocracy instead. A Traveller in War-Time All this is possible if civilization is preserved from the destructive power of the ignorant and brutal plutocracy, who now threaten the safety of mankind. Caesar's Column Exactly their idea of a princess of plutocracy! The Pot Boiler The man,—a poor man too and despised in the land, was standing up for his rights, all alone, against the aristocracy and plutocracy of the county. The American Senator The villas are not vast or suggestive of over-grown plutocracy, they are suggestive of moderate wealth, pleasant summers, cheerful winters and domestic happiness. Lectures and Essays This has given rise to the charge sometimes made that our government is a "plutocracy," a government of the people by a small wealthy class. Community Civics and Rural Life But what is that in these days of plutocracy? The Hohenzollerns in America But a dissension between the Lords and Commons divides that resisting power; as I have explained, the House of Commons still mainly represents the plutocracy, the Lords represent the aristocracy. The English Constitution In an elegant plutocracy, a jealous husband is regarded as a boor. Overruled Thus the descendants of the feudal aristocracy were pushed aside by the modern plutocracy. Landholding in England The Anarchist wolf, flying from the wolves of plutocracy, throws himself on the honor of the man. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara Along the stalls, keeping in the shade of the houses and the scattered palms, pass representatives of the plutocracy of the world. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Aristocracy and plutocracy still furnish the figureheads of politics; but they are now dependent on the votes of the promiscuously bred masses. Man and Superman The armories built for the accommodation of the guard were called by the unions "plutocracy's bastiles," and the mounted State constabulary organized in 1906 by Pennsylvania were at once dubbed "American Cossacks." The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners She realized that no mercy could be expected from the ruling class, that between the Tsarism of Russia and the plutocracy of America there was no difference save in name. Anarchism and Other Essays The key fact in the new development of plutocracy is that it will use its own blunder as an excuse for further crimes. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays "Don't forget this, oh representative of the plutocracy," he had said. A Poor Wise Man You will have exchanged an aristocracy for a plutocracy. Scaramouche Monarchy may be divided into royalty and tyranny; oligarchy into aristocracy and plutocracy; and democracy may observe the law or may not observe it. Statesman The talent he retained through life for studying his subject, and even somebody else's subject, had long been concentrated on this idea of championing a new peasantry against a new plutocracy. The Man Who Knew Too Much It was the acme of plutocracy because it was not private property. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays So strong is our faith in this protection by plutocracy, that we are more and more trusting our empire in the hands of families which inherit wealth without either blood or manners. What's Wrong with the World Here is no overbearing plutocracy, no squalid poverty, an excellent system of education, liberal and practical, from the local school to the university, a population, to all appearance, healthy, thrifty, and comfortable. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 They will often learn by experience that the democracy has become a plutocracy. Statesman The Moscow plutocracy of bald merchants and bejewelled fat wives had gone. Russia in 1919 But this strange poetry of plutocracy prevails over people against their very senses. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays This, like all the affectations of our present plutocracy, is an entirely modern thing. What's Wrong with the World Democracy has to fight its way out from under plutocracy. The Research Magnificent With the decline of those necessities it has gradually ceased to have meaning as a military organization, and become honeycombed with unclean plutocracy. What's Wrong with the World The plutocracy of the town being thus gathered in the little room at the militia-house, their wives came, timorously at first, and chattered through the windows. Russia in 1919 The war upon Dickens was part of the general war on all democrats, about the eighties and nineties, which ushered in the brazen plutocracy of to-day. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays |
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