Know your isms
-ism
Gk. -ismos
a doctrine, practice, or system of belief
-cracy
Gk. kratos, power
rule by a named group or principle
-archy
Gk. arkhe, rule
rule, or its absence, by a named number
Most arguments about these words are arguments about their endings. Plain, sourced definitions of political and economic systems, what they share, and where they actually differ.
-cracy, -archy
Government
the arrangement by which a state is ruled, and who holds the authority to rule
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-ism
Economics
who owns productive property, and how output is allocated
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