capitulationismn.
/kəˌpɪtjᵿˈleɪʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, /kəˌpɪtʃᵿˈleɪʃn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /kəˌpɪtʃəˈleɪʃəˌnɪzəm/ derogatory.
The advocacy or approval of capitulation or compromise; spec. (in Communist polemic) the advocacy of peaceful coexistence between capitalism and socialism.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > faults according to communist theory
revisionism1856
practicism1931
objectivism1933
reification1937
tailism1948
practicalism1950
diversionism1955
capitulationism1963
1942 Protestant Oct. 68 Steering safely between the Scylla of ‘capitulationism’ on the one hand, and the Charybdis of ossified nationalism on the other.
1948 H. Mukerjee India Struggles for Freedom 227 To defeat the machinations of imperialists and the capitulationism of the leaders.
1963 Times 8 Jan. 7/1 Scarcely veiled accusations of Russian ‘capitulationism’ and ‘Trotskyism’, and the abandonment of peaceful coexistence by the Chinese, were exchanged between Peking and Moscow.
2003 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 14 Oct. a18 In addition to Euro-nationalism and capitulationism, there is a third factor working to undermine Atlanticism—namely, the lack of a commonly perceived threat to the NATO allies.
2010 Z. Hao Whither Taiwan & Mainland China 115 Premier Zhou Enlai was criticized by Mao as practicing capitulationism when he was making compromises with the US in the negotiations with the Nixon administration.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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