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  • noun Plural form of mobocracy.

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Examples

  • Societies where that is done are called mobocracies and all sensible people shun them.

    Michael Anti on Why Chen Won't Go Michael Turton 2006

  • Societies where that is done are called mobocracies and all sensible people shun them.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Michael Turton 2006

  • In the 50s and 60s the cities were ruled by political mobocracies, combinations of businessmen with unionized public employees and the local papers.

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Crime and Recession 2009

  • Economic Harmonies which would settle social questions far better than theocracies or aristocracies or mobocracies, the real _deus ex machina_ being unrestrained plutocracy.

    Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Democracies are dangerous and lead to mobocracies and people getting hurt and killed.

    No Compromise When You're Right! 2009

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