Oligarchy

Oligarchy is a political system where a small group of usually incredibly wealthy individuals are the rulers, usually indirectly through lobbying a head of state, though this group can rule directly in some cases.

History
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Beliefs
Most people who believe in Oligarchical forms of government generally belief that an Oligarchy is inescapable and natural.

This is belief is backed by commonly seen statistical phenomena as the Pareto principle and the less scientific Sturgeon's Law. With Pareto principle being the principle stating that within most given scenarios 20% of the population will be responsible for 80% of the productivity, and Sturgeon's law being the general rule that around 90% of any given selection will be of low quality (which can be applied to people and their ability to rule others).

The Pareto principle can be seen in the polcompball community, with 20% of users receiving 90% of upvotes(though this data may be out of date now).

Another example of statistical likelihood of Oligarchical systems to emerge is Robert Michel's Iron Law of Oligarchy, which is a rule stating that fundamentally all large organisations are oligarchical in nature and any attempt at getting rid of such a structure fundamentally (such as done in Socialist Parties and Trade Unions) only ends up re-enforcing it.

How to Draw
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 * 1) Draw a ball
 * 2) Colour it yellow
 * 3) Draw 6 red circles at the vertices of an imaginary hexagon
 * 4) Add one eye
 * 5) For the second eye, draw a monocle
 * 6) You are finished

Friends

 * [[File: klep.png]] Kleptocracy - My true successor.
 * [[File: Plutocrat.png]] Plutocracy - I already told you, you're my true successor.
 * [[File: stalin.png]] Stalinism - You would... betray your ideals... for me?
 * [[File:Tetra.png]] Tetrarchy - That would be considered small but still not one.

Frenemies

 * [[File: lib.png]] Liberalism - You have always been a fool, if a useful one.
 * [[File: Authdem.png]] Authoritarian Democracy - He likes me but hates it when he's [[File: klep.png]] with me
 * [[File: Merit.png]] Meritocracy - Why do the members of our cabal need to be chosen based on "merit".
 * [[File:Diarchy.png]] Diarchy - This is borderline monarchy.

Enemies

 * [[File: Dem.png]] Democracy - This ideology doesn't exist.
 * [[File: awaj.png]] Anarchism - Neither does this one.
 * [[File: soc.png]] Socialism- Or this one.

Literature

 * Political Parties: A Sociological Study of Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy by Robert Michels
 * The Ruling Class by Gaetano Mosca
 * The Mind and Society: A Treatise on General Sociology by Vilfredo Pareto

Wikipedia

 * Oligarchy
 * Elite
 * Elitiism
 * The Establishment
 * Business Oligarch

Videos

 * The Intractable Problem of Democracy and Elite Theory: Gaetono Mosca and Vilfredo Pareto by The Academic Agent