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"ref": "1897, anonymous author, The Revolutionary Tendencies of the Age: Their Cause and Their Ultimate Aim, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →OCLC, page 119",
"text": "Plutocracy, which is virtually supreme to-day, is to be no less condemned ; for it is not only not just, bit is nearly as detrimental to the race at large as absolute socialism would be, if adopted […]",
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"ref": "1933, G. K. Chesterton, “On Industrialism”, in All I Survey",
"text": "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.",
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"sense": "government by the wealthy",
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"word": "rahavalta"
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"alt": "きんけんせいじ",
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"sense": "government by the wealthy",
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"sense": "government by the wealthy",
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"word": "금권 정치"
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"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic",
"feminine"
],
"word": "плутокра̀ција"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"Roman",
"feminine"
],
"word": "plutokràcija"
},
{
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plutokracia"
},
{
"code": "sl",
"lang": "Slovene",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plutokracija"
},
{
"code": "dsb",
"lang": "Lower Sorbian",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plutokratija"
},
{
"code": "hsb",
"lang": "Upper Sorbian",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plutokratija"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plutocracia"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "plutokrati"
},
{
"code": "tg",
"lang": "Tajik",
"roman": "plutokratiya",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"word": "плутократия"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "puḷūṭṭōkkirāci",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"word": "புளூட்டோக்கிராசி"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "sèet-tà-yaa-tí-bpà-dtai",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"word": "เศรษฐยาธิปไตย"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"word": "plütokrasi"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "plutokrátija",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "плутокра́тія"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"roman": "plutokratiya",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "плутократия"
},
{
"code": "uz",
"lang": "Uzbek",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "plutokratiya"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"word": "chế độ tài phiệt"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "pliwtocratiaeth"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "goludlywodraeth"
},
{
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "plutokratye",
"sense": "government by the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "פּלוטאָקראַטיע"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "rikkaat"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ploutocratie"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗluṭoḳraṭia",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"word": "პლუტოკრატია"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "ṗluṭoḳraṭebi",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"word": "პლუტოკრატები"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Plutokratie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"plural"
],
"word": "Plutokraten"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ploutokratía",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "πλουτοκρατία"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "auðveldi"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "auðjöfraveldi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plutokracja"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plutocracia"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "plutokrátija",
"sense": "controlling class of the wealthy",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "плутокра́тия"
}
],
"word": "plutocracy"
}
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