Instead we have witnessed the emergence of the Age of oligarchy.
“Some say America is an oligarchy for the multinationals,” he said.
The second wave of Russian oligarchy is different from the first in another way, too.
Certainly they would be better off under a reformist government, rather than the smothering absolutism of the oligarchy.
Thus much of the origin,—let us next consider the evils of oligarchy.
Tyranny springs from democracy much as democracy springs from oligarchy.
Such, then, is the form and such are the evils of oligarchy; and there may be many other evils.
Ought I not to begin by describing how the change from timocracy to oligarchy arises?
And this, speaking generally, is the way in which oligarchy is established.
Well, I said, and how does the change from oligarchy into democracy arise?
A system of government in which power is held by a small group.