plutodemocracyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Blend of plutocracy +‎ democracy

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˌplutoʊdɪˈmɒkɹəsi/

名詞

plutodemocracy (複数形 plutodemocracies)

1. (politics) A deceptive pseudodemocratic government that is in fact a hypercapitalist plutocracy.
   • 1974, Maurice Duverger, Modern democracies: economic power versus political power‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 1977, Harold Joseph Laski, The American democracy: a commentary and an interpretation‎^[2]:

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

   • 1992, Asahi Shinbunsha, Japan quarterly: Volume 39; Volume 39, link

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

   • 2010, Jonathan Littell, The Kindly Ones: A Novel‎^[3], page 506:

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

関連する語

• plutodemocratic