commandism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

command +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

commandism (uncountable)

  1. (politics, derogatory) Dictatorial authoritarianism.
    • 1981, Harry Harding, Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976, page 45:
      Two months later the Party Day editorial in Jen-min jih-pao also identified commandism as the principal problem to be overcome.
    • 2010, Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, Weiming Tu, Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience:
      Early in 1959 there was a rectification campaign to correct commandism as a left deviation.

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