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Marxism vs Plutocracy - What's the difference?

marxism | plutocracy |

As nouns the difference between marxism and plutocracy

is that marxism is the socialist philosophy and political program developed by while plutocracy is government by the wealthy.

marxism

English

Noun

(-)
  • The socialist philosophy and political program founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; .
  • The socialist ideology of the followers of Karl Marx; a radical, revolutionary political philosophy that aims to capture state power, introduce a dictatorship of the proletariat, and then progress to communism.

    • See also

    * Marxism-Leninism * capitalism * communism * feudalism English eponyms English words suffixed with -ism

    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