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Red Republic
Also with lower-case initials.
[red a. 9 b.]
A republic based on socialist principles, spec. the French Second Republic, proclaimed in 1848. So Red Republican, one who holds radically republican views and advocates the use of force to realize them, esp. a supporter of the European revolutions of 1848; Red Republicanism, the principles and views of Red Republicans.
1848Illustr. London News 1 July 415/1 The ‘Red Republicans’ have justified their name. They have filled the streets of Paris with blood... The working classes, or ‘Red Republicans’, were imbued with the doctrines of Communism. 1848Tablet 2 Sept. 566/4 The red republic is now in a situation somewhat analogous to that of the Jacobins under Bonaparte. 1850(title of newspaper) The Red Republican. 1850E. P. Whipple Washington & Principles of Revolution 29 We are proposing all those intricate problems which red republicanism so swiftly solves. 1857C. M. Yonge Dynevor Terrace I. xx. 327 Raise our barricade for the rights of the Red Republic, and cry La liberté, l'égalité, et la fraternité. Ibid. II. ii. 23 All I am clear about is, that even a Red Republican is less red than he is painted. 1858N.Y. Tribune 11 Jan. 2/5 When Mr. Bigler was in Kansas last summer, he was the known, open and enthusiastic advocate of what some hereabout call Red Republicanism. 1874Trollope Phineas Redux I. xxxiii. 276 One..advocates the personal government of an individual ruler, and the other that form of State which has come to be called a Red Republic. 1875P. K. O'Clery Hist. Ital. Revolution v. 185 The other [was] a soldier and nothing more, knowing nothing of politics beyond a rabid red-republicanism. 1960R. K. Webb Harriet Martineau xi. 322 Only Cavour was capable..of steering his way between the reactionary agents and the red republicans. 1972T. Coleman Passage to Amer. xiv. 221 Kossuth came to America in 1851... He came to be seen as a continental red republican. |