plutodemocracy

plural plutodemocracies

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

   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

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   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

   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