splittismn.

1962 Guardian 15 Dec. 7/1 That dread word, ‘Splittism’, which has never before darkened a page of the Sino-Soviet polemic, broke through to the surface of the Peking ‘People's Daily’ yesterday in the first open discussion of the possibility of a split. This term, taken from the translation of the Chinese document into English by the official New China News Agency, appears from the context to be identical with the Russian Communist concept of ‘fractionalism’.

1964 Economist 8 Feb. 490/3 In Peking's view splittism means opposing and betraying Marxism-Leninism, usually in the interests of the bourgeoisie.

1976 Times 20 Oct. 10 We must..repudiate all those who betray Marxist-Leninist-Mao Tse-tung thought, tamper with Chairman Mao's directives, practise revisionism and splittism, [etc.].

1980 Economist 31 May 9/1 One challenge to western unity..had been compounded by another..and the danger of splittism was evident.

1968 Economist 5 Oct. 22/3 It is no longer the ‘splittists’ in Peking who are on trial before the majority of the world's communist parties, but the hard-liners in the Kremlin.

1969 Daily Tel. 11 Feb. 19/7 Frelimo and the Organisation of African Unity Liberation Committee are aware of the dangers of ‘splittist’—as Peking calls it—tendencies.

1978 Peking Rev. 10 Mar. 9/2 The ‘gang of four’..once again indulged in splittist activities and devised all kinds of schemes and plots.