The Birth of a New Word

I just made up a word by accidentally misreading a passage in "American Fascists: The Christian Right And The War On America". Author Chris Hedges wrote about how American industrialists and intellectuals flirted with the idea of fascism in the 1930s. Benito Mussolini called what he was doing "corporatism", 'which created an unchecked industrial and business aristocracy.' Sounds familiar, eh?

Anyway, "corporatism" was hyphenated on the page and so was "aristocracy". I inadvertently skipped a line and thus....

CORPO-TACRACY or perhaps CORPOTACRACY

I know, I know. Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue and it's hardly original sounding, but it really was an accident.