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MacDonaldism, n. Pol. Hist.|məkˈdɒnəldɪz(ə)m|
[f. the name of James Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937), British statesman and prime minister, leader of the first Labour governments (1924 and 1929–31) and a non-Labour coalition administration (1931–5) + -ism.]
The political and economic policies pursued by Ramsay MacDonald and his supporters, sometimes characterized as a moderate socialism. Freq. with negative connotations.
1924Labour Monthly May 259 There is no doubt that MacDonaldism and all that it stands for is not only temporarily in the ascendant, but has achieved for a space a measure of insecure control over the whole movement. 1934G. A. Aldred Socialism & Parliament (ed. 2) i. xiv. 52 The I.L.P. has stressed how slight was the difference between Labourism and MacDonaldism at the time of the National Government rupture in 1931. 1950R. Crossman in Koestler et al. God that Failed 10 They saw that..Baldwinism and MacDonaldism in Britain..were lazy intellectual shams. 1962Listener 25 Jan. 187/1 The same moderation ensured that the Party, in spite of its humiliating defeat in 1931, would remain on the path of constitutional parliamentary opposition, ‘MacDonaldism without MacDonald’. 1982Guardian Weekly 24 Oct. 21/4 Within the political game he [sc. Oswald Mosley] was inevitably an enfant terrible. This let him cut through the footling pathos of MacDonaldism. |