Freedom and Democracy: The Oligarchs
The Oligarchs
escrito por Dini Harmita
Abstract
For the start, I have been attacked by my enemies who are funded by at least European oligarchs therefore I am writing this to understand what they want and continue defeating them at the same time. This research note is written as a summary for my studies about freedom and democracy including the interactions between and within systems. The findings suggest related sides including scholars to study more micro, meso, and macro scopes comprehensively and comparatively.
Key words: Europe, Oligarch, political party, democracy
Who are The Oligarchs
Defined as those who have excess access towards the resources either natural or not, there are at least only five to ten percent oligarchs in each entity. Summing it up, it also means five to ten percent in the universe. The average, mean, and median will be non applicable because of polarisation.
Russia is among the main players in the oligarchy world, funded by those super rich from the Arabs, Jewish, Muslim Tartar from post USSR countries including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and its surrounding countries from Khorasan who especially have heavy weapon businesses. Their businesses also comprise at least transportations, oil, real estates, drugs, plantations, and telecommunications. Currently they launched a satellite train in the area where I temporarily live so they can hack me through the radio waves.
What is their problem? I wish I knew, nevertheless literature reviews may answer in better ways. Psychologically there is a high possibility that they don't want to lose their capitals, especially economic capitals (Bourdieu, 1983). That legitimate themselves to attack including with cyberattacks without considering the damages they have caused. The cyberattacks are called as the parts of the impacts or effects of neoliberalism trap; the technology ruined the meanings of the interactions (Harmita 2007, Bennon and Fukuyama 2023).
Before proceeding with the reviews, I am going to list the companies. First and foremost, the black propaganda in England is funded by the Shell company. Second, Russia and their oligarchs own most of the real estates almost everywhere including in Indonesia; for them it's very easy to do so, like Putin gifted real estates for her girlfriend’s grandmother. Third, the circulation of Corruption, Collusion, Cartelisation, and Nepotism (C4N)’s money laundering is also manifested in those buildings. The Government of Indonesia built infrastructure only to spare them some for themselves; not only roads, but also Sub Terminal Agribusiness (STA). Fourth, the related scholars also have their own favour. Not rarely they're flipping words for attacking.
What Literature Says about the Oligarchs
Casal Bértoa (2016) called those aforementioned super rich in Europe including Armenia as the Oligarchs. Harmita (2021) stated that in natural resources those oligarchs tend to be involved for funding provisions more than for the collaborative management implementation. As the implication, the money rules because the beneficiaries don't have or possess less power than them.
Most of the Oligarchs don't know they're called as ones because they don't realise about the polarisation. In some cases they also cause the gap itself; such as in England and Spain. Nevertheless the Shell company case doesn't only happen in England and Europe; because oil and minerals are everywhere. In Spain, the differences between the rich and poor may not be as consequential as in Asia including Indonesia; nonetheless, both have the similarities in terms of Russian interference.
Who is not interfered with by Russia? “I know right”, Einstein would say.
Casal Bértoa (2017) mentioned the importance of funding in democracy by saying that like other competitions, winning elections has been mostly about money. Nevertheless different with other scholars, because of the C4N along with other schools he tends to suggest public funding to balance the power of private dominance in political parties (Musial-Karg, Casal Bértoa, Gasor, 2025; Casal Bértoa, Sileander, and Lynge, 2024; Casal Bértoa and Lipcean, 2024; Casal Bértoa and Tsutskiridze, 2024; Casal Bértoa and José Rama, 2022; Casal Bértoa and Spirova 2019; Casal Bértoa and Rodríguez Teruel, 2016; Casal Bértoa, Moleenar, R. Piccio, and Rashkova, 2014).
Balancing the Funding
If we have a good example for the balance in wider scopes there wouldn't be any big conflicts between and within political parties. Individually, to remind each other is an option. Nevertheless we need theories of interactions to discuss it.
In political parties it's also discussed in Party Institutionalisation and Party System Institutionalisation theories as part of political behaviour. Nonetheless, we need a proper behavioural routinisation for stabilising the interactions.
With such balance the quality of democracy will be reached including through balanced finance. With the current practices of C4N, especially the hidden ones, it's impossible to achieve that stage.
Any success stories? I couldn't recall any so far.
Conclusion
Reversing the research framework, since we can't learn from any success stories we may want to narrow the case into as small as families. Nevertheless, a greedy and shellfish oligarch family member can jeopardise the whole system simply because his or her families will do anything to get what he or she wants even if it includes cycles of apocalypse.
I am not in a position to give any suggestions or advice either. The least I can do is to share these different perspectives.
Especially for further research related to these topics, it's worth combining micro, meso, and macro analysis like Harmita (2007) did when studying the conflicts related to natural resources especially within and surrounding the national parks.
No one is perfect. Nonetheless, it would be appreciated if related sides including and especially scholars understand this.
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