privilegism

English

Etymology

privilege +‎ -ism

Noun

privilegism (uncountable)

1. A social system in which some people have privileges that others do not.
   • 1968, Lloyd Wendell Eshleman, William Morris: Prophet of England's New Order, page 317:

     Again it is clear that Morris, carrying through his ideas of historic evolution, believes that privilegism (or oligarchy) on which most societies have sooner or later come to be based, and on which they have sooner or later fallen, must […]

   • 2009, Giorgio Blundo, Pierre-Yves Le Meur, The Governance of Daily Life in Africa, page 66:

     Clientelism, privilegism, and “every-man-for-himself-ism” converged, for example, within an increasingly degraded administrative environment, towards growing general contempt for the anonymous user […]