What are Oligarchic Republics, Democratic Republicanism, and Democratic Socialism?

Answer 1

Oligarchic means that a small number of people have control. So an oligarchic republic would be a nation in which a very small number of (elected?) representatives make and enforce the laws.

Democratic Republicanism would be the form of government found in the U.S. (and other democracies), where the people vote (democratically) for representatives (having representatives to make laws means it's a republic). Either that, or the phrase Democratic Republicanism applies to someone who can't decide which of America's two major parties to join.

And Democratic Socialism describes a system in which elections are held, but the government owns (most of) the means of production. So basically everyone works for the government. In practice, the Socialist governments that have not fallen into dictatorships (i.e., the ones that are still democracies) have quite a bit of free enterprise (where individuals own businesses or own stock in corporations). But the characteristic of these Socialist governments that makes them Socialist is that they have very high tax rates (over 50% income tax, for example), and the government provides many services for the people (medical care, welfare, etc.), and exercises a large amount of control over people's economic lives.

Answer 2

"(having representatives to make laws means it's a republic)"

That is not what a Republic means. A Republic means that there is a charter that expressly limits the power of the majority to control the minority (to enslave them to the majority will).

If you put 10 people in a room, 9 of them are hungry, 1 of them is not hungry and holding a basket of apples, close the door, wait ten minutes, and go back into the room, you will see how fast a "Representative" for the nine hungry people will be "elected" and how quick that basket of apples will be "legislated" away from the one individual who was holding them. He'll be lucky if he gets to keep even one.

"Representative Government," without a charter to protect the minority is just Democracy, which is just mob rule, followed quickly by outright socialism and blatant wealth redistribution, you know, like America today.

In a nation, you just have to wait more than five minutes for it to happen. In the case of the U.S., it only took about 80 years for the charter to get shredded and the basket of apples to be torn out over every person who was holding some.