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A society that looks republican or democratic but is controlled by private merchant interests and secret-society coordination.
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Merchant oligarchy
A society that looks republican or democratic but is controlled by private merchant interests and secret-society coordination.
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Venice, the Dutch Republic, England, and America are presented as four stages of transnational capital because each is a merchant oligarchy controlled by private interests.
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Venice becomes powerful precisely because it lacks resources and must use trade, piracy, diplomacy, and imperial parasitism to survive.
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"...four places are special. They are special because they are all merchant oligarchies, okay? Merchant oligarchies, meaning that they are controlled by private interests...."
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"...then all four, what's really important is that if you're a merchant oligarchy, you're actually controlled by a secret society. Not a king, but..."
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"It's a private bank. It's a private interest. They print money, and the government, how's it gonna spend money? It borrows from the Federal..."
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"...now before it sinks. All right, so again, Venice, it's a merchant oligarchy, just like the Dutch Republic, just like England, just like America,..."
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"And this is going to make Venice very, very wealthy. So the two big cities are Genoa and Venice, okay? And as you can..."
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"...invest the money. All right, and as you can understand, the merchant oligarchies love this because now they're taking people's money and they're able..."
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