As a result of this symbiosis, a new ruling class has appeared: the modern Russian feudal corporate oligarchy.
The corporate oligarchy did not exactly crumble that day, but it did shiver, however imperceptibly, in the chill wind of voices raised in protest.
Sadly we appear to be moving towards the type of corporate oligarchy that now runs the US political system.
But, with several honorable exceptions, members of both parties gratefully receive huge sums from the same corporate and individual oligarchy, serve the same interests.
We've already been turned into a corporate oligarchy while no one was looking.
With that degree of political disengagement, political corruption, and corporate oligarchy flourish.
Today's multinational corporations function as corporate oligarchies with influence over democratically elected officials.
Only then will people begin to get a voice against this corporate oligarchy.
By blocking reform of a broken system, the Bush administration is favoring the interests of a tiny corporate oligarchy over those of everyone else.
He described the dismantling of Gencor as "a very useful case study" for a future government interested in breaking up white corporate oligarchies.