单词 | social imperialism |
释义 | social imperialismn. 1. a. Chiefly in the phraseology of communism and socialism: advocacy of imperialist foreign policy while claiming to support socialism. Frequently depreciative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > imperialism > covert social imperialism1919 social imperialism1960 1919 Communist 1 7 in L. Baritz Amer. Left (1971) xvii. 146 The Socialist parties..justified the war as a war for the independence of nations. Not the proletarian class struggle, but nationalism, social-patriotism and social-imperialism determined the policy of the dominant Socialism. 1930 M. J. Olgin tr. V. Lenin Coll. Wks. XVIII. 477 Social-patriotism and social-imperialism, the standpoint of the formerly Social-Democratic leaders in Germany,..is a more dangerous enemy to the proletariat than the bourgeois apostles of imperialism since, misusing the banner of Socialism, it can mislead the unenlightened workers. 1965 tr. V. Lenin Tasks of Third International in Coll. Wks. XXIX. 502 ‘Fabian imperialism’ and ‘social-imperialism’ are one and the same thing: socialism in words, imperialism in deeds. 2007 A. Colas Empire iii. 109 One political outcome of such disputes was the creation in 1919 of the Communist International, overtly committed to redressing the ‘social imperialism’ of its predecessor. b. spec. Socialist policies used to disguise imperialist ambitions. Now historical.Esp. used in discussions of Sino-Soviet relations. ΚΠ 1968 Washington Post 25 Aug. a16/1 Comparing the invasion of Czechoslovakia to Hitler's thrust into the Sudetenland in 1938..Chou accused the Soviet leaders of ‘big-power chauvinism’ and ‘social imperialism’. 1972 B. S. Gupta Communism in Indian Politics xi. 429 The Maoist factions have accepted the Peking position that India has been reduced to a satellite of American imperialism and Soviet social-imperialism. 1978 Hua Kuo-feng in Peking Rev. 10 Mar. 35/2 The people's struggle against them, and in particular against Soviet social-imperialism, is on a higher upsurge than ever. 2001 Guardian Weekly (Nexis) 3 Jan. 3 The aggressive policies of US imperialism—joined at a later date by Soviet social-imperialism. 2. Politics. A combination of an imperialist foreign policy and programmes of social reform, frequently introduced in order to quell internal social upheaval. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > imperialism > covert social imperialism1919 social imperialism1960 1960 B. Semmel Imperialism & Social Reform i. 24 Social-imperialism was designed to draw all classes together in defence of the nation and empire and aimed to prove to the least well-to-do class that its interests were inseparable from those of the nation. 1986 M. W. Doyle Empires xii. 329 The new kaiser, Wilhelm II, dropped Bismarck for failing to acquiesce in social imperialism, which Bismarck refused to pursue. 2002 D. Kennedy Brit. & Empire vii. 95 Among the strongest advocates of social imperialism were the Tory nationalist Lord Milner and the Fabian socialist Sidney Webb. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1919 |
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