diversionistn.
/dɪˈvəːʃənɪst//dʌɪˈvəːʃənɪst/ In Communist usage: a saboteur; also, one who conspires against the government. Also attributive or as adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > faults according to communist theory > one who commits
running dog1925
diversionist1937
objectivist1960
capitulationist1963
1937 Daily Tel. 28 Aug. 12/3 A woman railway worker..has been sentenced to be shot..for ‘putting sulphuric acid in the water bottles’ of three trains bound for Moscow... Her sub-bottle-washer and fellow ‘diversionist’..was sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.
1949 F. Maclean Eastern Approaches i. ii. 24 For some years past numerous politicians and others had met with this fate, variously branded as ‘Trotskists’, ‘wreckers’, ‘Fascist spies’, ‘diversionists’ and so on.
1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing i. vi. 110 We have proofs that Nadesha Filipovna was one of the leaders of this diversionist conspiracy.
1955 Times 1 July 10/6 He pleaded Guilty to political crimes and diversionist activity, but denied collaborating with the Gestapo during the war.
Derivatives
diˈversionism n. the activity of a diversionist.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > faults according to communist theory
revisionism1856
practicism1931
objectivism1933
reification1937
tailism1948
practicalism1950
diversionism1955
capitulationism1963
1955 Reporter 16 June 3/1 Will Pravda's rash critic now be found to have indulged in right-wing diversionism and petty-bourgeois wrecking?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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