self-criticism
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self-criticism (usually uncountable, plural self-criticisms)
- Criticism of oneself.
- (communism, Juche) A practice of confessing and criticizing one's real or imagined transgressions in public settings, especially in East Asia.
- 1991, Edward A. Gargan, China's Fate: A People's Turbulent Struggle with Reform and Repression, 1980-1990, Doubleday Books:
- […] commit self-criticism and allow other people to criticize him. If we do all these things, then there is hope and there is a future for Marxism. The most important thing is consistency. If you make a promise you must keep it […]
- 2003 August 16, vjmorton, “Not-so-brave heart”, in Rightwing Film Geek[1]:
- This is starting to resemble (in a much lower-stakes field, it cannot be said often enough) some Union of Soviet Cinematographers self-criticism sessions for artists whose work was considered “bourgeois formalism” or whatever made Stalin’s colon clench that week.
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[edit]criticism of oneself
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