Oligarchy is a phenomena that exists throughout the World and through time. In the West it was created as the "Academy" by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, and forms the backbone of capital as Plato's Republic. In Asia, it was similar as Confucius' similar school that introduced "high stakes exams" early on. Oligarchy is the opposite of democracy, especially as it was defined 2500 years ago in ancient Greece, how it affected how ancient Rome defined the capital structure that defines Western life today, and especially how the structure is reinforced and regulated: academic education.
Within every change movement is the oligarchic element that the movement is attempting to change: someone successfully achieving control (often by silencing others) and hence defeating democracy by replacing it with oligarchy.
This group seeks to apply critical inquiry to the occupy movement to show where the oligarchy is lurking. Oligarchy has "markers:" obsessive behaviors, tendency to dominance, cold mathematical "rationally reduced" approaches.
Knowing the history of rebellion, there is no doubt that this group will be censured everywhere--none whatsoever--and that, I suppose will be the most important marker.
"The problem" is in the solution, so things only get worse despite activists' best efforts. Two+ years since the dialectic was identified as the method of defective dominance with social activism, the problem remains.
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