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Ochlagogy vs Ochlocrat - What's the difference?

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Ochlagogy is a related term of ochlocrat.


As nouns the difference between ochlagogy and ochlocrat

is that ochlagogy is (rare) manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue while ochlocrat is an adherent of the principle of ochlocracy; a advocate of mob rule.

ochlagogy

English

Noun

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  • (rare) Manipulation of a mob by use of inflammatory rhetoric, casting opprobrium, and by appeal to the lowest common denominator generally; extreme and wholly unscrupulous demagogy; the practice of an ochlagogue.
  • * 1962 : Cecil John Ellington and A. G. Russell of the Classical Association (Great Britain), Greece and Rome , “Peripatos: The Athenian Philosophical Scene?—?II”, page 21 (The Clarendon Press)
  • One can imagine what Epicurus would have thought of the ochlagogy of Herodes Atticus and his contemporaries, and the noisy demonstrations which it evoked.

    ochlocrat

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An adherent of the principle of ochlocracy; a advocate of mob rule.
  • * 1897 : Gilbert Murray, M.A., A history of ancient Greek literature , page 338 (D. Appleton and Company)
  • But Lysias was an unabashed ‘?ochlocrat .’ He was at this time poor, and his citizenship was shown to be illegal almost as soon as it was granted.
  • * 1993 : Jorge Amado, Gregory Rabassa [tr.], The War of the Saints , page 117 (Bantam Books; ISBN 0553095374, 9780553095371)
  • “You, Father, are an ochlocrat . No heresy in our time is more noxious than trying to implant ochlocracy in the Church. And that’s what you’re trying to do.”
  • * 2006 : Heinrich August Winkler, Alexander Sager [tr.], Germany: The Long Road West, 1789–1933 , page 59] ([http://www.oup.co.uk/ Oxford University Press; ISBN 0199265976, 978-0199265978)
  • ‘The people are as holy as the mob is unholy. A democract is one who wants government for the people and by the people. Someone who wants mob rule is called an “ochlocrat ”.’ [from ochlos , Greek for ‘mass’, ‘mob’ (h.a.w.)] The three estates, the nobility, peasantry, and bourgeoisie, must have advisory and co-determinative political power in all issues and requirements of the country; the princes are to exercise executive authority ‘within boundaries established by the general laws of Germany’.31

    Derived terms

    * ochlocratic * ochlocratical * ochlocratically