Plutocracy vs Kleptocracy - What's the difference?
plutocracy | kleptocracy |
Government by the wealthy.
A controlling class of the wealthy.
A corrupt and dishonest government characterised by greed.
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As nouns the difference between plutocracy and kleptocracy
is that plutocracy is government by the wealthy while kleptocracy is a corrupt and dishonest government characterised by greed.plutocracy
English
(wikipedia plutocracy)Alternative forms
* plousiocracy * ploutocracyNoun
(plutocracies)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)kleptocracy
English
(wikipedia kleptocracy)Alternative forms
* cleptocracyNoun
(kleptocracies)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}