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plutodemocracy

noun
/ˌplutoʊdɪˈmɒkɹəsi/

Etymology

Blend of plutocracy + democracy.

  1. derived from δημοκρᾰτῐ́ᾱ
  2. derived from dēmocratia
  3. borrowed from democratie
  4. compounded as plutodemocracy — “plutocracy + democracy”

Definitions

  1. A deceptive pseudodemocratic government that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy.

    • 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.
    • It can no more survive as a plutodemocracy than it could, before the Civil War, survive half slave and half free.
    • If the people are the basis of money politics, then Japan must be a plutodemocracy.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA