Kampfbegriff
German
Etymology
Kampf (“fight”) + Begriff (“term”). Compare English fighting words.
Pronunciation
Noun
Kampfbegriff m (genitive Kampfbegriffes or Kampfbegriffs, plural Kampfbegriffe)
- a term which is often and polemically used by adherents of some opinion or ideology, particularly in order to claim that term and give it a partisan definition
- „Freiheit“ wurde zum Kampfbegriff der antisozialistischen Kräfte in den Staaten des westlichen Bündnisses.
- “Freedom” became a polemical term often repeated by anti-Socialist forces in the states of the Western alliance.
- „Rassismus“ ist ein Kampfbegriff geworden, mit dem die politische Rechte entlegitimiert werden soll.
- “Racism” has become a polemical term used to delegimitise the political Right.