Economicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Economicide is a noun meaning The destruction of an economic system by replacing it with a market economy.
Meaning
The destruction of an economic system by replacing it with a market economy.
More Meanings
- Genocide that results from destroying a people's economic basis.
Example Sentences
Hymies and guineas used menticide, economicide, crime, agitcide, agricide, and other things.
Thus it was possible to commit genocide by means of economicide and this, in turn, was the direct result of state planning.
Wester privatization and collectivization both lead to economicide, or the destruction of the economic basis of reciprocity.
Bolivian peasant leader and congressman Evo Morales condemned the FTAA as a “reproduction of savage capitalism” that would result in “economicide” for small producers.
Word Forms
- economicides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include economocracy, destructionism, economism, ecocapitalism, neoliberalization, ruinism.
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