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pluto-democracy|ˌpluːtəʊdɪˈmɒkrəsɪ|
Also plutodemocracy.
[f. Gr. πλοῦτος wealth, riches + democracy.]
1. Plutocratic government which masquerades as democracy.
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict. 1941D. Wilson Germany's ‘New Order’ 24 German gibes at pluto-democracy. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 41 Hitler has proclaimed his aims... They include..the destruction of what he is pleased to call ‘pluto-democracy’. 1970H. Arendt On Violence 72 A new system, which he [sc. Pareto] called ‘Pluto-democracy’—a mixed form of government, plutocracy being the bourgeois regime and democracy the regime of the workers.
2. A country or state which purports to be a democracy but where power lies with the rich.
1902Nineteenth Century & After July 119 If England be allowed to become a Plutodemocracy, then she has the tragic example of Venice to chasten and admonish her. 1940Common Sense Aug. 6/2 The absolute power of a Stalin or a Hitler is seen to be even worse than the economic exploitation and political ineffectiveness of a ‘pluto-democracy’ with its checks and balances. 1942L. B. Namier Conflicts 209 In the presence of social inequalities, parliamentary democracy without parties must inevitably result in a real ‘pluto-democracy’. 1948W. S. Churchill Second World War I. xx. 287 The Jew Litvinov was gone, and Hitler's dominant prejudice placated. From that moment the German Government ceased to define its foreign policy as anti-Bolshevism, and turned its abuse upon the ‘pluto-Democracies’.
Hence ˌpluto-ˈdemocrat, an adherent or advocate of pluto-democracy; ˌpluto-demoˈcratic a.
1940Economist 24 Feb. 328/2 German propagandists are making steady use of..‘Britain the pluto-democrat, living in luxury on the wealth extorted from 60 million native serfs’. Ibid. 29 June 1102/1 German propaganda among the French troops has followed the lines of ‘plutodemocratic capitalist Britain’. 1946R. Graves Poems 1938–1945 35 By every nastier manifestation Of plutodemocratic civilisation. |