Reply #38: I guess I wasn't very clear on this particular point [View All]

[Time for change]

No, I don't particularly think that plutocracy or corporatocracy are "sugar coated". I've used the term corporatocracy myself, to describe the same thing. In fact, the only reason I used a slightly different term this time is that "Oligarchy" is the term used in Eisler's book, which I was commenting upon. What I meant to say was that if we purposely choose terms because they are inoffensive to our audience, our writing may lose some of its impact. But then again, as I also said, you have a valid point that we don't want to turn people off to the point where they are unlikely to listen to what we have to say.

So we're dealing with competing issues. Where to draw the line? My inclination is to simply use what I consider to be the most accurate term (though in this case, as I said, I used oligarchy because that was the term that Eisler used).