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Plutocracy vs Cryptocracy - What's the difference?

plutocracy | cryptocracy | coordinate terms |

Cryptocracy is a coordinate term of plutocracy.



As nouns the difference between plutocracy and cryptocracy

is that plutocracy is government by the wealthy while cryptocracy is a form of government where the real leaders are hidden, or merely unknown.

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

    cryptocracy

    English

    (wikipedia cryptocracy)

    Noun

    (cryptocracies)
  • A form of government where the real leaders are hidden, or merely unknown.

    • Synonyms

    * puppet government

    Coordinate terms

    * aristocracy * democracy * plutocracy * theocracy