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A ruling clique is a group of people who jointly rule an oligarchic form of government. Ruling cliques generally differ from another type of oligarchy: a military junta . Military juntas are always ruled by military personnel (often high-ranking like general ).
A clique (AusE, CanE, UK: / ˈ k l iː k / or US: / ˈ k l ɪ k /; French:), in the social sciences, is a small group of individuals who interact with one another and share similar interests rather than include others. [1]
Oligarchy (from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few' and ἄρχω (árkhō) 'to rule, command') [1] [2] [3] is a form of government in which power rests with a small number of people.
The clique had close ties to Japan, granting concessions in exchange for funding and military training, [2] [3] and advocated war against the German Empire as part of the First World War, as well as military suppression of the Kuomintang. The clique was removed from power after the Zhili–Anhui War and slowly faded from prominence.
A French (translated into English) humorous image of a cabal. A cabal is a group of people who are united in some close design, usually to promote their private views or interests in an ideology, a state, or another community, often by intrigue and usually without the knowledge of those who are outside their group.
The UK's highest court will decide whether whether trans women can be regarded as female under the Equality Act.
In sociology, the ruling class of a society is the social class who set and decide the political and economic agenda of society.. In Marxist philosophy, the ruling class are the class who own the means of production in a given society and apply their cultural hegemony to determine and establish the dominant ideology (ideas, culture, mores, norms, traditions) of the society.
The theory of the Asiatic mode of production (AMP) was devised by Karl Marx around the early 1850s. The essence of the theory has been described as "[the] suggestion ... that Asiatic societies were held in thrall by a despotic ruling clique, residing in central cities and directly expropriating surplus from largely autarkic and generally undifferentiated village communities".