Muskism

English Etymology From en Musk -ism. Sense 3 en Q6192915 1 1. Noun ~ en countable A characteristic phrase or statement by Elon Musk. en https://www.autoevolution.com/news/elon-musk-tweets-photos-of-big-falcon-rocket-leaving-earth-declares-occupymars-128638.html Elon Musk Tweets Photos of Big Falcon Rocket Leaving Earth, Declares OccupyMars Autoevolution 2018-09-17 Daniel Patrascu Whether this means a new announcement about SpaceX’s Martian plans is to be madec or is just another Muskism remains to be seen. en uncountable The philosophy and politics espoused by Elon Musk. en Charlie Pierce Charlie Pierce What Happens to Elon Musk and Muskism Now? Esquire https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64369154/trump-administration-musk-backlash-step-back/ Trumpism has evolved completely into Muskism, and it needs neither Trump nor Musk to wreak its havoc. 2025-04-02 https://web.archive.org/web/20260806031959/https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a64369154/trump-administration-musk-backlash-step-back/ 6 August 2026 en Pierre-Yves Néron Political Political Theory of Corporations: Answer To Caulfield’s (2025) If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re a Firm? Philosophy of Management 263–268 2025-09 https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s40926-025-00347-1 24 3 1740-3812 10.1007/s40926-025-00347-1 But I remain convinced that what I call conservatism of commerce better captures the ideological dynamics of Muskism, Trumpism, and the business elitism that structures our economic life. en uncountable Hypercapitalism inspired by science fiction and technocracy. en Elon Musk Is Building a Sci-Fi World, and the Rest of Us Are Trapped in It 2021-11-04 Jill Lepore Jill Lepore https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/elon-musk-capitalism.html w:The New York Times The metaverse is at once an illustration of and a distraction from a broader and more troubling turn in the history of capitalism. The world’s techno-billionaires are forging a new kind of capitalism: Muskism. Mr. Musk, who likes to troll his rivals, mocked Mr. Zuckerberg’s metaverse. But from missions to Mars and the moon to the metaverse, it’s all Muskism: extreme, extraterrestrial capitalism, where stock prices are driven less by earnings than by fantasies from science fiction. en https://www.inverse.com/innovation/elon-musk-sci-fi What Elon Musk's love of science fiction reveals about Tesla and SpaceX Inverse 2021-11-10 Mike Brown Muskism might get people to Mars, but as a “free planet,” will the Martians choose to stay the course? en Carl Rhodes Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire 2025-01-21 Policy Press https://books.google.be/books?id=SiH6EAAAQBAJ 978-1-5292-3912-6 Muskism is akin to feudalism in that, as Lepore explains, '[i]t's like there are these lords and the rest of us are the peasantry, and our fates are in their hands because they know best'. en-US Jennifer Szalai How ‘Muskism’ Is Changing the Way America Works The New York Times 2026-04-15 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/books/review/muskism-quinn-slobodian-ben-tarnoff.html 0362-4331 Muskism, like Fordism, is not an individual but a system. Henry Ford was the industrialist who pioneered the use of the assembly line and the $5-a-day wage. Fordism characterized the form of 20th-century capitalism that paired “mass production with mass consumption.” Musk is the entrepreneur who sells electric cars and satellite service (among other things). Muskism characterizes a new, technologically driven political economy that dismantles state institutions with one hand while promoting self-reliance, or the fantasy of it, with the other. en Elon Musk en eponyms