Oligarch

[Kirsty McCluskey]

Here's my sin:  I don't read enough Lenin!

Now I will be scurrying off to look for mentions of oligarchs - this is a
fascinating topic.

Kirsty McCluskey

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Alina Israeli <aisrael at american.edu> wrote:

> Oligarch is not new. I don't know about Trotsky, but here are key terms of
> Marxist polit¨Ceconomy:
>
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>
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> §Õ§Ú§ã§Ü§â§Ú§Þ§Ú§ß§Ñ§è§Ú§ñ.
>
>
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> §Ü§Ñ§á§Ú§ä§Ñ§Ý§Ú§Ù§Þ§Ñ.
>
>
>
> On Aug 21, 2008, at 6:30 AM, Kirsty McCluskey wrote:
>
>  I wish I could provide an answer, but all I can do is confirm that in all
>> my
>> far too extensive reading of Trotsky (the consummate coiner of phrases) I
>> never saw him use the word oligarch.  Neither do I recall its use by any
>> of
>> his predecessors or contemporaries in the denunciation of the overly rich.
>> Plutocrat sounds far more familiar, and, as you point out, it is in fact
>> the
>> right term.  Perhaps this use of "oligarch" is relatively new?
>>
>>
>>
> Alina Israeli
> LFS, American University
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> fax (202) 885-1076
> aisrael at american.edu
>
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