Plutocracy
Plutocracy (from Greek πλοῦτος, ploutos, meaning "wealth", and κράτος, kratos, meaning "power, dominion, rule") or plutarchy, is a form of oligarchy and defines a society ruled or controlled by the small minority of the wealthiest citizens. The first known use of the term was in 1652. Unlike systems such as democracy, capitalism, socialism or anarchism, plutocracy is not rooted in an established political philosophy. The concept of plutocracy may be advocated by the wealthy classes of a society in an indirect or surreptitious fashion, though the term itself is almost always used in a pejorative sense.
Usage
The term plutocracy is generally used as a pejorative to describe or warn against an undesirable condition. Throughout history, political thinkers such as Winston Churchill, 19th-century French sociologist and historian Alexis de Tocqueville, 19th-century Spanish monarchist Juan Donoso Cortés and today Noam Chomsky have condemned plutocrats for ignoring their social responsibilities, using their power to serve their own purposes and thereby increasing poverty and nurturing class conflict, corrupting societies with greed and hedonism.
Podcasts:
Plutocracy
ALBUMS
- Dankstahz released: 2001
- Sniping Pigz released:
Dankstahz
Released 2001- Feel the Wrath
- G of the D
- Shorty but a Goody
- Plutoloko
- Suckass
- Chickenz
- Intro
- Jailed
- Mizer
- Guilt
- Good Times
- Blurred
- Dankstahz
- Two Sided Tale
- Class Tension
- Rolling With Dank
- Tutu, I Love You
- Crust?... Not!
- Dv8
- Snitch
- Erupt
- Outro
- Dankstahz (live)
- Snitch (live)
- Good Times (live)
- Erupt (live)
- G of the D (live)
- Feel the Wrath (live)
- Crust?... Not! (live)
- Suckass (live)
- Mizer (live)
- Chickenz (live)
- Freedom Denied
- Clay Foundations
- Intro - Morbid
- Plutocracy, Part 1
- Progress?
- System Overload
- Two Sided Tale
- Outro
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by Animosity
Plutocracy
by: AnimosityThe dream is dead and seldom lived
So there has to be a better way than just hoping to be rich
But I look around and what I see
Plutocracy
You're purose is to pollute me, to degrade me
Plutocracy
sign my name unwillingly agree to fucking slavery
I know it fucking sucks, but what can I do I've got to hold on, have to try to make it through
When we are left on our own to freeze, every man is the enemy
Spend my life to improve his
Toil while he is spoiled
It doesn't make sense
Everyday it kills me
But what can I do
To be a part of the system is to be ruled
No one is given a fair chance and at times life is a gamble
Brought it to existence born already wearing the capitalist shackles.
Push me to the bottom and crush me into the earth
HOw low I go or tall I stand traces back to my birth
Use it to defile my freedom and despoil my home
Desecrate my mind and my life as a whole
I know there is more to life than this, but I can't just forget
You want to feed yourself, then place your bet
The only true freedom from this shit is isolation