commandism
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]commandism (uncountable)
- (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.