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What will defend socialism from the oligarchs?
The elimination of the social relations and structural incentives that create oligarchs
Oligarchs always emerge in the wake of vast privatization campaigns and often require the backing of a liberal wing of government, whether it's foreign liberals or an internal liberal clique that works with foreign capital to subvert socialist development in a given country
Looking at socialist history, the maoists and their horizontal decentralized approach to governing while maintaining powerful centralized regimental armies seems to be best formula developed so far to counter the liberal obsession with privatization
You reward those who cooperate and kill those who don't, with the help of the ones who do.