Muskism

English

Etymology

From Musk +‎ -ism. Sense 3 coined by American historian Jill Lepore.

Noun

Muskism (countable and uncountable, plural Muskisms)

  1. (countable) A characteristic phrase or statement by Elon Musk.
    • 2018 September 17, Daniel Patrascu, “Elon Musk Tweets Photos of Big Falcon Rocket Leaving Earth, Declares OccupyMars”, in Autoevolution‎[1]:
      Whether this means a new announcement about SpaceX’s Martian plans is to be madec[sic] or is just another Muskism remains to be seen.
  2. (uncountable) The philosophy and politics espoused by Elon Musk.
    • 2025 April 2, Charlie Pierce, “What Happens to Elon Musk and Muskism Now?”, in Esquire‎[2]:
      Trumpism has evolved completely into Muskism, and it needs neither Trump nor Musk to wreak its havoc.
    • 2025 September, Pierre-Yves Néron, “Political Political Theory of Corporations: Answer To Caulfield’s (2025) If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re a Firm?”, in Philosophy of Management‎[3], volume 24, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 263–268:
      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.
  3. (uncountable) Hypercapitalism inspired by science fiction and technocracy.
    • 2021 November 4, Jill Lepore, “Elon Musk Is Building a Sci-Fi World, and the Rest of Us Are Trapped in It”, in The New York Times‎[4]:
      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.
    • 2021 November 10, Mike Brown, “What Elon Musk's love of science fiction reveals about Tesla and SpaceX”, in Inverse‎[5]:
      Muskism might get people to Mars, but as a “free planet,” will the Martians choose to stay the course?
    • 2025 January 21, Carl Rhodes, Stinking Rich: The Four Myths of the Good Billionaire‎[6], Policy Press, →ISBN:
      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'.
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