different between plutodemocracy vs plutocracy

English

Etymology

Blend of plutocracy +? democracy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pluto?d??m?k??si/
• Audio (US, Northern California)

Noun

plutodemocracy (plural plutodemocracies)

1. (politics) A deceptive pseudodemocratic government that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy.
   • 1974, Maurice Duverger, Modern democracies: economic power versus political power, link

     The old ruling classes were no longer the major obstacles to the development of plutodemocracy; they were replaced by the new oppressed class, the proletariat, which was beginning to become sufficiently powerful to threaten capitalism.

   • 1977, Harold Joseph Laski, The American democracy: a commentary and an interpretation, link

     It can no more survive as a plutodemocracy than it could, before the Civil War, survive half slave and half free.

   • 1992, Asahi Shinbunsha, Japan quarterly: Volume 39; Volume 39, link

     If the people are the basis of money politics, then Japan must be a plutodemocracy.

   • 2010, Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones: A Novel, page 506

     Reds, sweeping aside the garbage of plutodemocracy, and dissolving the bourgeois parties, I remained stuck in France.

Related terms

• plutodemocratic

Translations

References

• Encyclo.co.uk

English

Alternative forms

• plousiocracy, ploutocracy

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????????? (ploutokratía, “rule of the wealthy”), from ???????????? (ploutokraté?, “I rule through wealth”), from ??????? (ploûtos, “wealth”) + ?????? (kraté?, “I rule”) (from ?????? (krátos, “power”, “might”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /plu??t?k??si/
• (US) IPA^(key): /plu??t??k??si/

Noun

plutocracy (countable and uncountable, plural plutocracies)

1. Government by the wealthy.
2. A controlling class of the wealthy.

Synonyms

• argentocracy (nonce word)
• tycoonocracy (uncommon)

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Further reading

• plutocracy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia