classicide

English

Etymology

class +‎ -icide

Noun

classicide (countable and uncountable, plural classicides)

1. The deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.

   Hyponym: aristocide

   • 2017, John Hutchinson, Nationalism and War:

     Any study of nationalism must also take into account relationships between other ideologies and forms of genocide, whether we examine the politicides and classicides of Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, the mass killing of native peoples by colonists in the Americas before the age of modern nationalism, or indeed the massacres of seventeenth-century religious wars.

French

Noun

classicide f (uncountable)

1. classicide