On Oligarchy in the Republic
The Ideology of the One Percent (Class Series, Essay 8)
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Every republic has faced the danger of concentration: the drift of wealth into the hands of the few, and the transformation of prosperity into oligarchy. The United St…
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