plutodemocracy
/ˌplutoʊdɪˈmɒkɹəsi/
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plutodemocracy noun: a deceptive pseudodemocratic government that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy.
Noun
plutodemocracy (plural plutodemocracies)
- 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.1974, Maurice Duverger, Modern democracies: economic power versus political power
- 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
Examples of plutodemocracy in a sentence
- 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 of plutodemocracy
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Origin of plutodemocracy
Blend of plutocracy + democracy.
Questions about plutodemocracy
- What does plutodemocracy mean?
- Plutodemocracy means a deceptive pseudodemocratic government that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy.
- How do you use plutodemocracy in a sentence?
- If the people are the basis of money politics, then Japan must be a plutodemocracy.
- What part of speech is plutodemocracy?
- Plutodemocracy is a noun.
- How do you pronounce plutodemocracy?
- Plutodemocracy is pronounced /ˌplutoʊdɪˈmɒkɹəsi/.
- What is the plural of plutodemocracy?
- The plural of plutodemocracy is plutodemocracies.
Words near plutodemocracy in the dictionary
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