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Plutocracy vs Corporatocracy - What's the difference?

plutocracy | corporatocracy |

As nouns the difference between plutocracy and corporatocracy

is that plutocracy is government by the wealthy while corporatocracy is rule by corporations.

plutocracy

English

(wikipedia plutocracy)

Alternative forms

* plousiocracy * ploutocracy

Noun

(plutocracies)
  • Government by the wealthy.
  • A controlling class of the wealthy.

    • Quotations

    * 1933 — , Essay XXIII: ''On Industrialism *: Modernity is not democracy; machinery is not democracy; the surrender of everything to trade and commerce is not democracy. Capitalism is not democracy; and is admittedly, by trend and savour, rather against democracy. Plutocracy by definition is not democracy. But all these modern things forced themselves into the world at about the time, or shortly after the time, when great idealists like Rousseau and Jefferson happened to have been thinking about the democratic ideal of democracy.

    Synonyms

    * argentocracy (nonce word) * tycoonocracy (uncommon)

    Related terms

    * plutocrat * plutocratic * plutodemocracy * plutonomy

    corporatocracy

    English

    (wikipedia corporatocracy)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Rule by corporations.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 15, author=Joe Queenan, title=Covert Ops, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=He spent most of the 1970s and ’80s helping the evil corporatocracy that runs the Secret American Empire establish suzerainty over the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America and Africa. }}

    See also

    * inverted totalitarianism