struggleism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From struggle +‎ -ism.

Noun[edit]

struggleism (uncountable)

  1. (rare) A doctrine or philosophy based around struggle or conflict.
    • 1939, Robert Joseph Cuddihy, George Nauman Shuster, Pope Pius XI and American Public Opinion, page 130:
      Nationalism, racism and mass struggleism, if you will, began its bloody destructive career.
    • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 226:
      The Origin of Species was published in 1859, long after romantic struggleism had become a popular philosophy, and Darwin himself was a thoroughgoing liberal humanist.
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