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plutodemocracy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˌplutoʊdɪˈmɒkɹəsi/

Etymology

Blend of plutocracy + democracy.

Meanings

1. A deceptive pseudodemocratic government that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy.
   • It can no more survive as a plutodemocracy than it could, before the Civil War, survive half slave and half free. 1977, Harold Joseph Laski, The American democracy: a commentary and an interpretation:
   • 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. 1974, Maurice Duverger, Modern democracies: economic power versus political power:
   • If the people are the basis of money politics, then Japan must be a plutodemocracy. 1992, Asahi Shinbunsha, Japan quarterly: Volume 39; Volume 39, link:
   • Reds, sweeping aside the garbage of plutodemocracy, and dissolving the bourgeois parties, I remained stuck in France. 2010, Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones: A Novel, page 506:

Forms

Relateds

plutodemocratic

Translations (4)

ka პლუტოდემოკრატია (pseudodemocracy that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy) · pt democracia plutocrática (pseudodemocracy that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy) · es democracia plutocrática (pseudodemocracy that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy) · pt plutodemocracia (pseudodemocracy that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy)