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Monocracy vs Mobocracy - What's the difference?

monocracy | mobocracy |

As nouns the difference between monocracy and mobocracy

is that monocracy is autocracy while mobocracy is rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.

monocracy

English

Noun

  • autocracy

    • Derived terms

    * monocrat * monocratic * monocratically

    mobocracy

    English

    Noun

    (mobocracies)
  • Rule or control by the mob (or by the mass of ordinary people); a mob as a politically powerful force.
  • *2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2010, p. 270:
  • *:That this ultrareactionary mobocracy was composed mainly of people with brown skins ought to have made no difference.

    • Synonyms

    * ochlocracy