The Oligarchical Order: A Bonus Audio From A Collapsing State
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The Oligarchical Order: A Bonus Audio From A Collapsing State
critiques of a capitalist system of representative democracy in which markets seem to overpower popular will.
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The key concept is that much of America’s control circuitry has evolved to live outside the formal state, thereby making it resistant to displacement by democratic election. They laud “democracy” but avoid it in practice, through dual class stock, tenure for their bureaucrats and professors, tax-exempt compounding for their foundations, and ideolog
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But that is the situation. A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal government to one of the richest men on the planet, if not the richest, whose own interests are tangled up in those of rival governments and foreign autocr... See more