counterradicalism
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From counter- + radicalism.
Noun
[edit]counterradicalism (uncountable)
- Counterradical policies generally.
- 1992, Curt Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, page 76:
- Apparently Hoover survived the purge both because of his expertise in counterradicalism and by convincing Palmer, through Garvan, that he was not an "O'Briari man."
- 1993, James D. Calder, The Origins and Development of Federal Crime Control Policy:
- By the time he had participated in the Belgian relief, by the time he had observed the excesses of counterradicalism during the Red Scare […]