Meaning of plutodemocracy | Babel Free

Definitions

A deceptive pseudodemocratic government that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy.

Equivalents

Examples

“The old ruling classes were no longer the major obstacles to the development of plutodemocracy; they were replaced by the new oppressed class, the proletariat, which was beginning to become sufficiently powerful to threaten capitalism.”

“It can no more survive as a plutodemocracy than it could, before the Civil War, survive half slave and half free.”

“If the people are the basis of money politics, then Japan must be a plutodemocracy.”

“Reds, sweeping aside the garbage of plutodemocracy, and dissolving the bourgeois parties, I remained stuck in France.”

CEFR level