Kropotkinist

(anarchism, communism) An adherent of Peter Kropotkin's anarchist-communism; an anarcho-communist.


capitalism

en-noun

capitalism (countable and uncountable, plural capitalisms)

/ˈkæpɪ̈tl̩ˌɪzm̩/

Borrowed from French capitalisme (“the condition of one who is rich”); equivalent to capital + -ism. Derived from Proto-Indo-European *káput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. First used in English by novelist William Thackeray in The Newcomes [1854-1855].

bor

(politics, economic liberalism) A socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

भांडवलशाही

bhāṇḍvalśāhī

(economics, economic liberalism) An economic system based on the abstraction of resources into the form of privately owned capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state.

kapitalisme

socio-economic system based on the abstraction of resources

भांडवलशाही

bhāṇḍvalśāhī


communist

communists (plural)
Communist (alternative)

From French communiste, from commun (“common, communal”) + -iste (“-ist”). By surface analysis, commune + -ist.

anarcho-communist

anarchist communist, communist anarchist, free communist, libertarian communist

(communism) An advocate of a society based on the common ownership of property; a proponent of communism.

kommunis

person who follows a communist philosophy


beta

en-noun

beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)

From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.

“I guess in your psychological language of alpha males and beta males, I would be firmly in the camp that prefers the more laid-back betas,” she took a deep breath, “like your father.”

2006, Catherine Mann, Blaze of Glory, Harlequin, published 2006, →ISBN:

“They want sexy, virile alpha males, yes? But that doesn't come with sensitive and loyal and all of that. That's a beta. A frickin' collie, Lola. […]

2010, L. A. Banks, “Dog Tired (of the Drama!)”, in Kevin J. Anderson, editor, Blood Lite II: Overbite, Gallery Books, →ISBN, page 121:

She'd always had a thing for alpha males. Not that she had any intention of being bossed around, even if one had her best interests at heart. Her fascination with alphas was that they were a challenge. Betas didn't hold much of an appeal.

2010, Terry Spear, Wolf Fever, Sourcebooks Casablanca, published 2010, →ISBN, page 24:

When they ride the cock carousel in preference to the responsible betas that they find so boring, well, we guess that they pay.

2015, Stephen Jarosek, Tyrants of Matriarchy:

News of Harper-Mercer's murder spree, which killed ten, prompted speculation on neoreactionary forums that the long-awaited “beta uprising” of virginal shut-ins had begun. Not quite. But in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, a large audience of Americans finally saw the real beta uprising in the violent Nazi rally that shut the city down

2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die:

(slang, manosphere, masculism) Ellipsis of beta male, a man who is less competent or desirable than an alpha male.


politburo

politburos (plural)
Politburo (alternative)
politbureau (alternative)
Politbureau (alternative)

/ˈpɒlɪtˌbjʊəɹəʊ/

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Joseph Stalin

Borrowed from Russian Политбюро́ (Politbjuró, “politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union”), a contraction of полити́ческое бюро́ (politíčeskoje bjuró, “political bureau”).

bor

(communism, Marxism) The governing council and chief policymaking body of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and other Marxist-Leninist political systems.

քաղբյուրո

governing council and chief policymaking body of a Marxist-Leninist political system


duce

Borrowed from Italian duce. Doublet of doge, duc, duke, and dux.

(fascism) An authoritarian leader, especially Benito Mussolini.

دُوتْشِي

(fascism) an authoritarian leader, especially Benito Mussolini


comrade

From late Middle English comered, from Middle French camarade, from Spanish camarada or Italian camerata (“chamber mate”), from Medieval Latin *camarata, from Latin camara, camera (“vaulted room, chamber”); see chamber. Compare camaraderie.

Hello, comrade. Are you going to the Communist Party meeting tonight?

(communism, by extension) A fellow socialist, communist or other similarly politically aligned person.

Comrade Lenin inspired our people to undertake great works.

(communism) A non-hierarchical title, functionally similar to "Mr.", "Mrs.", "Miss", "Ms." etc, in a communist, socialist, or rarely in an Islamist state.


Athena

From Middle English Athena, from Latin Athēna, from Ancient Greek Ἀθηνᾶ (Athēnâ). Doublet of Athina.

The last thing feminist Athenas see about corporate structures, government, or academia is that they are run by benevolent and all-protective fathers.

1989, Jennifer Barker Woolger, Roger J. Woolger, The goddess within:

The latter may become either Athenas or feminists. If one gets a certain sort of male sponsorship, becomes a Daddy's girl, one is allowed to function in these vocations of the righteous […]

1992, Marilyn Frye, Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992, page 141:

Women who do decide to become scientists find themselves under attack from the self-proclaimed "echt" feminists, who call them "Athenas" and "Queen Bees."

1995, Noretta Koertge, Skeptical Inquirer, volume 19, number 2, page 42:

(feminism, derogatory, figurative) A woman who colludes with the patriarchy rather than actively opposing it.


swastika

en-noun

swastika (countable and uncountable, plural swastikas)

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्वस्तिक (svastika), from सु- (su-, “good, well”) + अस्ति (asti), a verbal abstract of the root of the verb "to be", स्वस्ति (svasti) thus meaning "well-being" — and the diminutive suffix क (ka); hence "little thing associated with well-being", corresponding roughly to "lucky charm". First attestation in English in 1871, a Sanskritism that replaced the Grecian term gammadion. From 1932 onwards it often referred specifically to the version used by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (also called the "hooked cross", or German Hakenkreuz).

sauwastika

left-facing; symbolizing the night or the tantric aspects of Kali

"Is that what you think of me? I believe in the Grail, not the Swastika!"

1989, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, spoken by Dr. Elsa Schneider (Alison Doody):

“I can’t imagine anyone believes in Communist culprits instead of a contract job commissioned on behalf of the swastika.”

2011, Rudolph Herzog, translated by Jefferson Chase, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler's Germany, Brooklyn: Melville House, →ISBN, page 36:

(fascism, history, metonymic, uncountable) Nazi rule.

hakenkreuz

chiefly in India referring to the Nazi swastika


redskin

en:Native American name controversy#Controversial terminology

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The Red & Anarchist Skinheads, a left‐wing splinter of the SHARP group, formed in 1993. It grew out of influences from the redskin culture in England.

(anarchism, communism) An anticapitalist skinhead.


pioneer

/ˌpaɪ.əˈnɪɹ/

From Middle French pionnier (“originally, a foot soldier”), Old French peonier, from peon (“a foot soldier”) (modern French: pion). See pawn (in chess).

uder

(communism) A member of a children’s organization operated by the Communist Party, typically in the second of three stages toward becoming a member of the Party itself.

pionier

member of a child organization in the Soviet bloc


militant

From Middle French militant, from Latin mīlitāns, present participle of mīlitāre (“to serve as a soldier”).

(specifically, communism) someone who supports the Trotskyist political view expressed in the newspaper Militant.

троцкист

one who supports a Trotskyite political view


sisterhood

en-noun

sisterhood (countable and uncountable, plural sisterhoods)

From Middle English susterhede; equivalent to sister + -hood (with a modification in the suffix).

What does the rallying cry of sisterhood and the concept of feminism mean when last year, the majority of white, female voters chose whiteness as a political identity over womanhood?

2017 September 23, Kaitlyn Greenidge, “‘Sisterhood’ Felt Meaningless. So My Sisters and I Got in the Car.”, in The New York Times:

(feminism) The idea of universal experience amongst women, regardless of other traits or factors. (Considered obsolete in third-wave feminism.)

sororidade

feminism: the idea of universal experience amongst women


gendered knowledge

(feminism) According to feminist studies and gender studies, mainstream knowledge that is produced by men and privileges the masculine over the feminine.


ovular

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From ovule + -ar. In the feminist sense, chosen as an opposite to seminar because of that term's etymological link with semen, the male sexual fluid.

Trebilco considers 'seminar' offensively 'masculinist', so she has replaced it with ovular, which she regards as its feminist equivalent.

1994, Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism?:

(feminism, rare) A seminar for feminists.


herstory

herstory (countable and uncountable, plural herstories)

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Wordplay: blend of her + history, derived as though the first syllable in history were his, the male determiner.

(feminism) Any historical writing by or about women.


shero

Packing estrogen and, not infrequently, a pen and a sword, sheroes come in every imaginable shape, size, and color, and manifest their sheroism in infinite ways.

1998, Varla Ventura, Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena, Conari Press, →ISBN, →OL:

Every human grouping, whether it's just two people, a family, people in the neighborhood, people in the city, in a nation, a tribe, a species; people live in direct relation to the heroes and the sheroes they have.

2006 November 30, Dave Chappelle & Maya Angelou (Iconoclasts), season 2, episode 6, Maya Angelou (actor), via Sundance:

He talks about how we must remember the unsung heroes and sheroes of the Talahassee boycott, of the movement in general, and finally, he wonders how C. K. Steele would be accepted here.

2010 April 1, Ana Maria Spagna, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN:

“They are nobodies. They could be silenced tomorrow. They are sheroes, to the world.”

2012 August 17, Melena Ryzik, quoting Kate Conroy, “In New York, a Show of Solidarity for Russian Punk Band”, in New York Times:


syndicalism

syndicalism (countable and uncountable, plural syndicalisms)

(socialism) Control of both industry and government by labor unions, especially as achieved through revolutionary direct action; advocacy for attempts to bring it about.

սինդիկալիզմ

the belief that capitalism should be replaced with labor unions


self-criticism

self-criticism (usually uncountable, plural self-criticisms)

[ˌsɛlfˈkɹɪɾəˌsɪzəm]

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to commit self-criticism

... commit self - criticism and allow other people to criticize him . If we do all these things , then there is hope and there is a future for Marxism . The most important thing is consistency . If you make a promise you must keep it[…]

1991, Edward A. Gargan, China's Fate: A People's Turbulent Struggle with Reform and Repression, 1980-1990, Doubleday Books:

This is starting to resemble (in a much lower-stakes field, it cannot be said often enough) some Union of Soviet Cinematographers self-criticism sessions for artists whose work was considered “bourgeois formalism” or whatever made Stalin’s colon clench that week.

2003 August 16, vjmorton, “Not-so-brave heart”, in Rightwing Film Geek:

(communism, Juche) A practice of confessing and criticizing one's real or imagined transgressions in public settings, especially in East Asia.


Marxism-Leninism

Meanwhile, “Mao Zedong Thought”, which originated in the 1930s, continues rhetorically to be recognised as one of the party’s guiding principles, an extension of Marxism-Leninism tweaked for China.

2012 November 6, John Ruwitch, Benjamin Kang Lim, Ben Blanchard, Adam Jourdan, “As China enters new era, how much of Mao will stay?”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 2023-07-18, World News:

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

(politics, communism) A communist ideological stream that emerged as the mainstream tendency amongst the Communist parties in the 1920s as it was adopted as the ideological foundation of the Communist International during Stalin's era, and was later adopted by the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam, and several other nations.

マルクス・レーニン主義

マルクス・レーニンしゅぎ


ouvrierism

(communism) The glorification of manual laborers, often in opposition to the leadership of labor or socialist movements.

ouvrierisme

(communism) the glorification of manual laborers


ouvrierist

(communism) Of, pertaining to, or supporting ouvrierism, the glorification of manual laborers.


panarchy

panarchy (countable and uncountable, plural panarchies)

From pan- + -archy. Coined independently in many different contexts.

If everyone all at once wanted to know who won the Stanley Cup in 1968 they could have the information simultaneously; cyberspace as the site of Unamuno's panarchy, where each one is king.

2001, David Trend, Reading Digital Culture, →ISBN, page 148:

(anarchism, rare) Rule by all; a system of governance in which each person has absolute power.


omg

(chiefly Internet, slang) Alternative form of OMG:


antipeople

en-adj

antipeople (comparative more antipeople, superlative most antipeople)

more antipeople (comparative)
most antipeople (superlative)

"They said that I had contacted foreign media and called me anti-China, antipeople and antiparty."

2009 January 9, Edward Wong, “Police in China Halt Parents Seeking Investigation Into School Collapses”, in New York Times:

(communism) Opposed to the interests of the people


maximalist

maximalist (comparative more maximalist, superlative most maximalist)

more maximalist (comparative)
most maximalist (superlative)
Maximalist (alternative)

From maximal + -ist, by analogy with minimalist.

His inclusion in the official delegation to Moscow caused surprise today and was seen as indicative of the Italian Communists' aversion to Maximalist currents in international communism.

1961 October 4, Paul Hofmann, “Communists in West Expected to Back Khrushchev Against Soviet and Chinese Left-Wing Extremists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(historical, communism) Relating to far-left communism.


maximalist

maximalists (plural)
Maximalist (alternative)

After a firm opening and an hour of fairly well sustained strength the stock market once more suffered a wide break yesterday following the receipt of the news of the overthrow of Kerensky and the announced intention of the Maximalists to propose an immediate peace with Germany.

1917 November 9, “Russian News Brings About Another Collapse—Evidenceof Banking Support”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Mr. Bernstein, who spent three months in Petrograd after the Revolution and had seen the Maximalists at work, said their aim was to bring about utter destruction not only of the freedom of the Jews, but also the freedom of all Russia.

1917 November 19, “Jews Against Bolsheviki”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(historical, communism, obsolete, capitalized) A Bolshevik.


malestream

malestream (comparative more malestream, superlative most malestream)

more malestream (comparative)
most malestream (superlative)

(feminism) Mainstream and usual, from the point of view of the man, though actually biased towards men.


herstorical

herstorical (comparative more herstorical, superlative most herstorical)

more herstorical (comparative)
most herstorical (superlative)

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The essays discuss the ways in which the struggles against racism and sexism have come together or the times they have worked in isolation. They are well researched and reflect herstorical conditions of America's past, so often left out of history.

1982 December 4, Malkah Barrsey Feldman, “A Legacy of Oppression”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 20, page 9:

(rare, feminism) Pertaining to herstory.


herstorically

en-adv

herstorically (comparative more herstorically, superlative most herstorically)

more herstorically (comparative)
most herstorically (superlative)

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(rare, feminism) In a herstoric or herstorical way.


foresister

From fore- + sister. Compare forefather.

Another method of concealing lesbian history is the post-mortem straightening out of the lesbian, in which Haiviette becomes Joan of arc's "girlhood friend," Ebba Sparre becomes Queen Christina of Sweden's "companion," and the Ladies of Llangollen become "famous friends." Many of our fore-sisters have been stolen from us in this manner.

1976, Xenia S. Williams, “The Power of History...or History Is Written by the Powerful”, in Dave Peterson, Johnathan Cross, Lyn Rosen, editors, A Gay Person's Guide to New England, 2 edition:

Only then will we be able to adequately tell what our foresisters have done in memory of her.

1984, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In memory of her: a feminist theological reconstruction of Christian origins:

Of course, women and men are always children of their time, and feminists today are children of their time, sitting on the shoulders of their foresisters even if they do not recognize it.

1999, Deborah F Sawyer, Diane M Collier, Is there a future for feminist theology?:

(feminism) A feminist of an earlier generation.


AES

actually existing socialism
actually existing socialism#English

(socialism) Initialism of actually existing socialism.


supercapitalism

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Together, newly powerful shoppers and shareholders of this supercapitalism drove a decline in labor unions and a frenzy by corporations desperate to buy some market advantage in Washington.

2007 September 2, Stephen Kotkin, “Dangers of a Turbocharged Economy”, in New York Times:

(capitalism) Any especially intense and competitive form of capitalism.


hypercapitalism

Perhaps Americans will finally choose to stop living in an economic Wild West and at last reject the boom-and-bust cycle of turbocharged hypercapitalism in favor of a more humane, livable society.

2008 March 30, “Letters”, in New York Times:

CCRU members disavowed the leftist pieties of their peers and fused cybernetics, metallurgy, bacteriology, chaos theory, science-fiction and the occult to explore, often in deliriously opaque language, what it meant to be alive in an age of hypercapitalism.

2015 November 16, Sukhdev Sandhu, “How dub master Kode9 became the hero of zero”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Under hypercapitalism, the most beautiful things are the surest signs of impending crisis. The nap seems like a luxury, or even a sign of weakness, a regression into infantlike torpor.

2018 December 1, Stephen Marche, “The $25 Nap Is Worth It”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The collapse of the Soviet Union and Communism at the beginning of the 1990s was very good news, but it had the unfortunate effect of making almost any left critique of America’s new hypercapitalism seem not just quixotic but also kind of corny and quaint.

2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:

However, the politics are much different. Silicon Valley’s libertarian, technocratic ideals – themselves a curious mutation of the California counterculture – could extend the darker aspects of hyper-capitalism.

2021 February 5, Matt Shaw, “Billionaire capitalists are designing humanity's future. Don't let them”, in The Guardian:

(capitalism) Extreme capitalism at the expense of traditional values.


Slovak Republic

First Slovak Republic
First Slovak Republic

(historical, fascism) The First Slovak Republic from 14 March 1939 to 4 April 1945.


hystory

en-noun

hystory (countable and uncountable, plural hystories)

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Wordplay, replacing the supposed occurrence of the male pronoun his with hystero-; compare herstory.

(feminism, very rare) Nonstandard spelling of history.


kolovrat

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *kolovortъ. In historical records, similar symbols were recorded as ладинец (ladinec) in Russian or słoneczko in Polish.
This spelling was influenced by Russian коловра́т (kolovrát), the more well-known form of the symbol invented by the neo-pagan leader Alexey Dobrovolsky in the 1990s.

In contrast, Krasnodar respondents were keen to differentiate between the kolovrat and the swastika, while recognizing the symbolic connections between them: […]

2009, George McKay, Michael Goddard, Christopher Williams, Neil Foxlee, editors, Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 284:

(paganism, politics, fascism, nationalism) An eight-spoked swastika used by Slavic neopagan, fascist, and nationalist groups.


archy

If archy in all forms has brought mankind grief, it follows that the remedy is repudiation. The repudiation of archy is anarchy. Anarchy is therefore the goal of freedom-seeking mankind. Whoever seeks freedom, advances anarchy.

1980, Frederic Trautmann, The Voice of Terror: A Biography of Johann Most, Praeger Pub Text:

It is not our intention here to settle the archy-versus-anarchy debate.

2010, Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J.Den Uyl, Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics, Penn State Press, →ISBN, page 338:

There are only two alternatives, in reality: political rule, or archy, which means: the condition of social existence where in some men use aggression to dominate or rule another, and anarchy, which is the absence of the initiation of force, the absence of political rule, the absence of the state.

2017, Edward P. Stringham, Anarchy and the Law: The Political Economy of Choice, Routledge, →ISBN, page 257:

(anarchism, usually derogatory) A political theory or practice that supports hierarchy and authority; the opposite of anarchy.


Fascist

In May 1929 Hitler successfully prosecuted a libel action against right-wing and left-wing opponents who had accused him of ‘betraying’ the South Tyrol in return for Fascist gold.

1978, Meir Michaelis, Mussolini and the Jews: German-Italian relations and the Jewish question in Italy, 1922–1945, Clarendon Press, page 46:

By the late 1930s Rome had new Fascist bridges, a new university, four new post offices and a number of new ministry buildings, which included, on Via Veneto, the Ministry of Corporations, that were to be Fascism’s answer to capitalist exploitation and Marxist class hatred.

2019, Matthew Kneale, “seven”, in Rome: A History in Seven Sackings, New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, published 2017, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 305:

(fascism, history) Of or pertaining to the Kingdom of Italy from 1922–1943.


Fascist

(fascism, historical, sometimes attributive) A member of the National Fascist Party in Italy from 1922 to 1943.

The Fascists invaded the USSR, they occupied many cities, they killed millions of people, they destroyed half the country.

2010, German Sadulaev, I Am a Chechen!, Random House, →ISBN, section 10, page 199:

(fascism, historical, sometimes attributive) Synonym of Nazi.


politruk

Borrowed from Russian политру́к (politrúk).

bor+

(communism, military) A supervisory political officer responsible for ideological education and organization; political commissar


fascistization

Felter Sartori’s colonial travelogue marks an important moment in the process of fascistization of Italian colonial discourse in general and of women’s discursive practice in particular.

2005, Cristina Lombardi‐Diop, “Pioneering Female Modernity: Fascist Women in Colonial Africa”, in Ruth Ben‐Ghiat, Mia Fuller, editors, Italian Colonialism, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 151:

This rupture emerged through a challenge to the status quo on a global scale and was followed by the fascistization of the Japanese polity through the incorporation of new forms of corporatism, militarism, and authoritarianism, as suggested by the ‘rejectionists’, but whose sum went well beyond any single one of these features.

2017 June 8, Louise Young, “When fascism met empire in Japanese-occupied Manchuria*”, in Journal of Global History, volume 12, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 279:

(fascism) The process of making or becoming fascist.


creative destruction

Calque of German schöpferische Zerstörung, popularized by economist Joseph Schumpeter.

cal

Like all major industrial advances, the telecomputer is an instrument of creative destruction. All the likely victims are mobilizing to prevent their own destruction. It is unsure how soon the creators will win.

1990, George F. Gilder, Life After Television, page 37:

There may be additional explanations for the acceleration of structural economic change. What counts, however, is the result: Schumpeter’s ‘creative destruction’ – the displacement of old skills, trades and entire industries with their dependent localities, by more efficient new skills, trades and entire industries – is now apt to span years, often very few years, rather than generations.

1994 April 7, Edward Luttwak, “Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future”, in London Review of Books, volume 16, number 07, →ISSN:

If creative destruction allows fast economic growth without generating serious inflation, then it might make sense, for example, to put high values on the shares of companies that will do well in such an unusual environment.

2000 June 10, Sharon Reier, “Half a Century Later, Economist's 'Creative Destruction' Theory Is Apt for the Internet Age”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:

Creative destruction, the term coined by economist Joseph Schumpeter to describe the workings of innovation and technology, justly became a buzzword of the New Economy. Many new companies have been created; almost as many will be destroyed.

2001 June 20, Daniel Gross, “Creative Destruction and the Web”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

New-media thinkers, with their appetite for disintermediation and creative destruction, implicitly endorse and advance this transformation.

2014, Astra Taylor, chapter 2, in The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

More than the much-remarked squeeze on working-class jobs in areas of the economy such as manufacturing, [Edward] Luttwak saw an accelerated “creative destruction” affecting clerical jobs in white-collar data-heavy industries such as banking that were being disrupted by capital's “Schumpeteresque” technology-assisted modernisation as they were digitised.

2020, Marcus Gilroy-Ware, After the Fact?, Repeater, →ISBN:

Tech workers know that creative destruction is part and parcel of working in a highly innovative industry. That is also why, despite the anxiety around job losses, new openings will arise.

2025 May 24, “The great AI jobs disruption is under way”, in FT Weekend, The FT View, page 8:

(economics, capitalism) The process of industrial mutation that continually revolutionizes the economic structure from within.


womanifesto

en-noun

womanifesto (plural womanifestos or womanifestoes)

womanifestos (plural)
womanifestoes (plural)

Two centuries later, feminist literary critics analyzed these feminist polemics, or womanifestos, as texts that embody a struggle between reason and emotion.

2002, Elaine Showalter, Inventing Herself, page 28:

On that date, whatever else we demonstrate, let us not fear to demonstrate by our presentation of womanifestos everywhere that feminism has universal potential and imperatives.

1992, Contemporary American Voices, page 316:


platformism

From platform + -ism, after the 1926 Organisational Platform of the General Union of Anarchists draft.

(anarchism) An anarchist tendency stressing the need for organizations that can influence working-class and peasant movements through ideological and tactical unity, collective responsibility, and federalism.


matristic

en-adj

matristic (comparative more matristic, superlative most matristic)

more matristic (comparative)
most matristic (superlative)

(feminism) Being or relating to a prehistoric female-led society based around Mother Goddess worship.


woman-born-woman

women-born-women (plural)
womyn-born-womyn (alternative)
WBW (alternative)

Coined by second-wave feminists to distinguish cisgender women from transgender women.

To the extent that she can pull it off, her gender is babe. But at Stayfree her babe outfit (long hair, big shirt, leggings, flats) makes her feel like an interloper—like some rude woman-born-woman intent on boycotting femininity because she can take it for granted.

(feminism) A cisgender woman; a cis woman.


BUF

(fascism) Initialism of British Union of Fascists, a political group of the 1930s.


transmisogynist

transmisogynist (comparative more transmisogynist, superlative most transmisogynist)

more transmisogynist (comparative)
most transmisogynist (superlative)
trans-misogynist (alternative)

Ropchan's assessment of the situation displays transmisogynist bias in the intentional misuse of the pronoun 'he,' […]

2012 April 4, Jil Jorgensen, Alexa DeGagne, “University must do more for transgendered people”, in The Gateway, volume 102, number 28, University of Alberta, page 10:

Well, speaking for myself as a trans woman: Certainly it's hard to argue that it doesn't repeat and reinforce all sorts of tired transmisogynist tropes, or that the song doesn't have a nasty hetero-cis sneer underneath it.

2012, Rachel Zall, quoted in Andrew Hickey, Preservation: The Kinks' Music 1964-1974, Lulu.com (2012), page 137, published 2 September 2012

Transwomen grow up in an incredibly transmisogynist culture, where we receive relentlessly negative messages about our identities, […]

2013, Leela Ginelle, "Parker Marie Molloy Elaborates on 'Gay Dudes, Can You Just Not?'", PQ Monthly, Volume 2, Number 12, December 2013/January 2014, page 12

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting transmisogyny.


transmisogynist

transmisogynists (plural)
trans-misogynist (alternative)

(feminism, LGBTQ, neologism) One who exhibits transmisogyny.


turbocapitalism

From turbo- + capitalism, popularized by Edward Luttwak in Turbo-Capitalism (1998).

It was not until the end of the 1970s that today's roaring turbo-capitalism was unleashed by the abolition of anti-competition laws and regulations left over from the 1930s, by the technological innovations thus allowed, by the privatization of whatever could be privatized, and by the removal of most important barriers.

1999, Edward Luttwak, Turbo-Capitalism: Winners and Losers in the Global Economy, New York: Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 1:

Instead, he [Barack Obama] and [Gordon] Brown stand together, supposedly the representatives of Anglo-American turbocapitalism, struggling to push the statist French and Germans—and this is the bit that was in nobody's script—leftward.

2009 March 31, Jonathan Freedland, “Where is the new JFK we expected? He's stuck in a rut with Gordon Brown”, in The Guardian:

David Cameron has marched onto territory staked out by Ed Miliband by promising that there would be no return to the "turbo-capitalism" of recent decades.

2012 January 19, Nicholas Watt, “David Cameron pledges era of ‘popular capitalism’”, in The Guardian:

As in China, nominally communist Vietnam has embraced brakes-off turbocapitalism, and the old dream of society has been picked clean.

2017 September 27, Jason Farago, “Southeast Asia Stakes Its Claim in the Art World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(capitalism) An accelerated form of capitalism that lacks measures to keep the system in equilibrium and prevent social unrest.


possibilist

actualist

antonym(s) of “someone who believes that things do not need to exist in order to have properties”

As early as 1881, the possibilists had won considerable backing in Parisian municipal elections;

1991, Gary P. Steenson, After Marx, Before Lenin, page 130:

(socialism, historical) A socialist who advocates focusing on small, achievable forms of immediate progress rather than an all-or-nothing commitment to revolution.


anarcha-feminism

(politics, feminism) A political and philosophical theory combining anarchism and feminism, which typically views the state as patriarchal and oppressive.


anarcho-pacifist

(anarchism) Of, supporting, relating to, or advocating anarcho-pacifism.


anarcho-pacifist

anarcho-pacifists (plural)
anarchopacifist (alternative)

(anarchism) a person who advocates anarcho-pacifism.


libertarian communism

(anarchism, communism) Synonym of anarcho-communism.


anarcho-pacifism

(anarchism) an anarchist tendency supporting pacifism instead of violence in order to achieve anarchist goals


sheroic

sheroic (comparative more sheroic, superlative most sheroic)

more sheroic (comparative)
most sheroic (superlative)

The tragedy of Gatha's sheroic journey is that the actualization of her own importance is never considered "the prize" of her odyssey; hence, she never recognizes the personal and historic success of her journey.

1999, Janice Lee Liddell, “Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation: The Climacteric as Seen in Novels by Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall”, in Janice Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp, editors, Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature, University Press of Florida, →ISBN, page 36:

This sheroic choice eventually led her to testify compassionately on behalf of faceless and voiceless young girls still living under horrific conditions in the community she had escaped from.

2015, Nancy D. O'Reilly, Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 84:

However, in the same vein, she also bemoans that following each of these campaigns, amnesia sets in wherein society tends to conveniently forget about the sheroic lengths to which its women have uniformly performed and without whom the military's successes could not have been achieved.

2015, G. L. A. Harris, Living Legends and Full Agency: Implications of Repealing the Combat Exclusion Policy, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 37:

(feminism) Heroic in a female or feminist context.


metapatriarchal

metapatriarchal (comparative more metapatriarchal, superlative most metapatriarchal)

more metapatriarchal (comparative)
most metapatriarchal (superlative)

From meta- + patriarchal, coined by Mary Daly (1928–2010), playing on multiple senses of meta-.

(feminism) Relating to transcendence over the patriarchy.


wommonhood

From wommon + -hood, modelled on womanhood.

(feminism, rare) Nonstandard spelling of womanhood.


pink tax

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(informal, feminism) The relative increase in price paid for women's consumer items compared to similar products marketed to men.


red scarf

en-noun

red scarf (plural red scarves or red scarfs)

red scarves (plural)
red scarfs (plural)

(communism) A neckerchief worn by a young pioneer, typically red in color.


young pioneer

(communism) A child who is a junior member of a Communist party, or similar movement.


matrophobia

Coined by the poet Lynn Sukenick; equivalent to matri- + -phobia.

(feminism) The fear of becoming like one's mother.


radical feminism

radical feminism (countable and uncountable, plural radical feminisms)

The conference had been convened by a group that wanted to defend two positions that have made radical feminism anathema to much of the left. First, the organizers hoped to refute charges that the desire to ban prostitution implies hostility toward prostitutes.

2014 August 4, Michelle Goldberg, “What Is A Woman? The Dispute between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism”, in The New Yorker:

(politics, feminism) A type of feminism which calls for a radical reordering of society to eliminate male supremacy in all social and economic contexts.


Stirnerism

(anarchism) The philosophy of Max Stirner, credited as a major influence in the development of nihilism, existentialism, postmodernism, and anarchism.


anarcho-Marxism

(anarchism, Marxism) Anarchist theory that incorporates Marxism.


AWALT

I'm from Russia. It's not better there than it is anywhere else... . stop thinking different places are better about women or whatnot. You're forgetting the single most important rule. AWALT [All Women Are Like That].

2019, "CzarCronik", quoted in Amanda DiGioia, Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis, unnumbered page

In expressing any attitude beyond the “it’s over” narrative, or refusing to believe AWALT, the incel is denoted as “coping”, a negatively charged label indicating that you have yet to completely swallow the blackpill, and are therefore naïve and “low IQ”.

2020, Katrine Rummelhoff, "Incels and Misogyny; what’s so appealing about hatred?", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, pages 59-60

Personal stories about unhappy relationships, cheating partners and manipulative ex-wives were often described in detail, usually to illustrate AWALT and serve as the basis for the MGTOW lifestyle.

2020, Scott Wright, Verity Trott, Callum Jones, “‘The pussy ain’t worth it, bro’: assessing the discourse and structure of MGTOW”, in Information, Communication & Society, volume 23:

(manosphere slang) Initialism of all women are like that.


neo-Trotskyist

en-adj

neo-Trotskyist (comparative more neo-Trotskyist, superlative most neo-Trotskyist)

more neo-Trotskyist (comparative)
most neo-Trotskyist (superlative)

(communism) Of or pertaining to neo-Trotskyism.


neo-Trotskyist

(communism) A proponent of neo-Trotskyism.


Makhnovism

(anarchism, communism) The theory and strategy of Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary.


Makhnovist

Makhnovist (comparative more Makhnovist, superlative most Makhnovist)

more Makhnovist (comparative)
most Makhnovist (superlative)
Makhnoist (alternative)

(anarchism) Of or pertaining to Makhnovism.


Makhnovist

Makhnovists (plural)
Makhnoist (alternative)


neo-Leninism

(communism) Leninist theory updated for the contemporary era.


pornotroping

Coined by Hortense J. Spillers in her 1987 essay “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book”; porno- + trope + -ing.

(feminism) The process of reducing a person or group of people to mere flesh, stripped of personhood and made into the object of violent and sexual impulses.


jineology

Anglicized from Northern Kurdish jineolojî, from jin (“woman”).

(feminism, politics) A school of feminist thought espoused by various leftist groups in Kurdistan.


wombyn

Form "My journey as a wombyn child emerging from a wombyn, my mother, and my own growth thru all the passages and consecutive emergences to the present is both similar to the experiences of generations of wombyn gone before me and uniquely my own.

1983, Lynda Ross Ford, Bleeding, page 147:

I come from a generation of wombyn that struggled and strived alone.

2014, Diata, Wombanystic Thoughts, →ISBN, page 108:

These spritely guides are merely an inspiration for you to begin or deepen your journey depending on where you are in your development. I invite you to take time to see what your personal guidance says about your wombyn's rhythms.

2016, Zsuzsi Hussla, Unraveling Her, →ISBN:


international socialist

en-noun

international socialist (plural international socialists)

international socialists (plural)
International Socialist (alternative)

(communism) A member of any of various Trotskyist tendencies that hope to form bonds between workers of different countries


neo-Trotskyism

(communism) Trotskyist theory updated for the contemporary era.


permanent revolution

permanent revolution (countable and uncountable, plural permanent revolutions)

(communism) The theory that socialism can be obtained without the country first experiencing a period of capitalism. The revolution must furthermore become an agent for other anticapitalist revolutions around the globe, in part to secure the revolution abroad.


pioneer scarf

pioneer scarf (plural pioneer scarves or pioneer scarfs)

pioneer scarves (plural)
pioneer scarfs (plural)

(communism) A neckerchief worn by a young pioneer, typically red in color.


wimin

(feminism) Alternative spelling of women.


womin

LF 36, Pisces, would like to meet a special womin with Holistic inter arts affection.

1986 April 19, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13:

(feminism) Alternative spelling of woman.


Bookchinist

In more Bookchinist terms, will humans annex Mars to second nature, or will the species foster a third nature that transcends the legacy of human social nature on Earth?

2005, Rob Kitchin, James Kneale, editors, Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 170:

(anarchism) Of or pertaining to the theories of Bookchin; relating to Bookchinism.


Bookchinism

(anarchism) The theories of Murray Bookchin (1921–2006), American anarchist and political theorist, known for his work on social ecology.


pan-socialist

en-adj

pan-socialist (comparative more pan-socialist, superlative most pan-socialist)

more pan-socialist (comparative)
most pan-socialist (superlative)
pansocialist (alternative)

(anarchism, communism) Encompassing all socialist tendencies.


stagism

(communism) The theory that society ought to pass gradually in order to arrive at communism: first through capitalism, then through socialism (the worker’s state).


toxic femininity

Don’t get me wrong I know many rad Riot Grrris but for me the predominant kinderwhore uniform didn’t seem very different than the toxic femininity mass media was already pushing on me as a fat non white teen […]

2014, Mason J., quoted in Amos Mac & Rocco Kayiatos, "Mr. Transman San Francisco Mason J.", Original Plumbing, Winter 2014, page 33

The obsequious demands of toxic femininity require placing oneself in a diminished role in relation to a more powerful partner, who uses physical, sexual, financial, emotional, or psychological actions or threats of actions to gain or maintain power over another person.

2019, Brenda R. Weber, Latter-day Screens: Gender, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism, page 232:

Rather, toxic femininity is a by-product of toxic masculinity – it is the poison which arises in women's bodies and minds when they experience not just the pain of lost love, but the hopelessness of trying to be perfect, not for themselves but for men who ultimately neither understand nor value them.

2024, Van Thanh Binh, Stephen Whitehead, Self-Love for Women: Overcoming Toxic Femininity and Suffering, unnumbered page:

(feminism) The systemic pressure on women to conform to standards of beauty, femininity, modesty, etc., to the detriment of individual agency and well-being.


libertarian Marxist

libertarian Marxist (comparative more libertarian Marxist, superlative most libertarian Marxist)

more libertarian Marxist (comparative)
most libertarian Marxist (superlative)

(communism) Of or pertaining to libertarian Marxism.


libertarian Marxist

en-noun

libertarian Marxist (plural libertarian Marxists)

(communism) One who subscribes to libertarian Marxism.


permanent revolutionary

permanent revolution
permanent revolution

(communism) Of or pertaining to permanent revolution.


permanent revolutionary

permanent revolutionary (plural permanent revolutionaries)


Mao-Spontex

democratic centralism
democratic centralism

revolutionary spontaneity
revolutionary spontaneity

(communism) A neo-Leninist, Maoist, and libertarian theory and political movement in Western Europe from 1960 to 1970 advocating for democratic centralism and revolutionary spontaneity from the lower classes.


Third Period

(communism, history) According to an obsolete theory, a period shortly after the Great Depression in which capitalism would be marked by further crises and then soon collapse.


state socialism

state socialism (countable and uncountable, plural state socialisms)

state socialisms (plural)
state-socialism (alternative)

(socialism) A type of socialism wherein some or many of the means of production are controlled by the state, the state in turn being operated by (or on behalf of) the workers.


permanent revolutionist

permanent revolutionist (plural permanent revolutionists)

permanent revolutionary
permanent revolutionary#English

(communism, rare) Synonym of permanent revolutionary.


Makhnovshchina

From Russian махно́вщина (maxnóvščina) or Ukrainian махно́вщина (maxnóvščyna). Both mean "the thing relating to Makhno", and are equivalent to Махно (Maxno) + -ов (-ov) + -ский (-skij) + -ина (-ina).

(anarchism, communism) Synonym of Makhnovism.


people's warrior

people's warrior (plural people's warriors)


neo-Bolshevism

neo-bolshevism (alternative)
neobolshevism (alternative)


Marxist-Leninism

Marxist-Leninism (usually uncountable, plural Marxist-Leninisms)

(communism) Synonym of Marxism-Leninism.


utopian socialism

utopian socialism (countable and uncountable, plural utopian socialisms)

utopian socialisms (plural)
Utopian socialism (alternative)

(history, socialism) Socialism that is focussed on planning and building a flawless and egalitarian society, but has little to no concern with methodology, class struggle, and the status quo at large.


anarcho-Bolshevism

(anarchism, sometimes derogatory, politics) Anarchism with Bolshevik characteristics.


himpathy

But this isn't because the problem of himpathy is rare. On the contrary -- it's so common that we regard it as business as usual.

2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, →ISBN, page 196:

For too long we have clung to the idea of “himpathy”, as Washington Times journalist Irin Carmon so perfectly described it at the writers' festival.

2018 May 13, Helen Pitt, “Drop the 'himpathy': Clarion call of Sydney Writers' Festival's #MeToo moment”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

Examples of “himpathy” abound. Cosby was buoyed by public support for decades, even as more than 60 women accused him of sexual assault.

2019 December 18, Anne Kingston, “Will Harvey Weinstein's big show produce ‘himpathy’?”, in Maclean’s:

(feminism) Inappropriate sympathy given to men or boys, especially those who are guilty of sexual transgressions.


scientific socialism

scientific socialism (countable and uncountable, plural scientific socialisms)

Calque of French socialisme scientifique.

cal

Ainsi, dans une société donnée, l’autorité de l’homme sur l’homme est en raison inverse du développement intellectuel auquel cette société est parvenue, et la durée probable de cette autorité peut être calculée sur le désir plus ou moins général d’un gouvernement vrai, c’est-à-dire, d’un gouvernement selon la science. Et de même que le droit de la force et le droit de la ruse se restreignent devant la détermination de plus en plus large de la justice, et doivent finir par s’éteindre dans l’égalité ; de même la souveraineté de la volonté cède devant la souveraineté de la raison, et finira par s’anéantir dans un socialisme scientifique.

1849 [1840], Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, “Chapitre V. Second Partie. § 2.”, in Qu’est ce que la propriété?, page 242; English translation from “Chapter V. Part Second. § 2.”, in Benjamin Tucker, transl., What Is Property?, translation of original in French, 1876, page 277:

(socialism, obsolete) Society governed by science.

Diese weltbefreiende Tat durchzuführen, ist der geschichtliche Beruf des modernen Proletariats. Ihre geschichtlichen Bedingungen und damit ihre Natur selbst zu ergründen, und so der zur Aktion berufenen, heute unterdrückten Klasse die Bedingungen und die Natur ihrer eignen Aktion zum Bewußtsein zu bringen, ist die Aufgabe des theoretischen Ausdrucks der proletarischen Bewegung, des wissenschaftlichen Sozialismus.

1975 [1878], Friedrich Engels, “Dritter Abschnitt. II.”, in Herrn Eugen Dühring’s Umwälzung der Wissenschaft (Mark-Engels-Werke; 20), page 265; English translation from “Part III. II.”, in Emile Burns, transl., Herr Eugen Dühring's Revolution in Science (Marx/Engels Collected Works; 25), translation of original in German, 1987, pages 270-271:

Нау́чный социали́зм предполага́ет «материалисти́ческое понима́ние исто́рии», т. е. он объясня́ет духо́вную исто́рию челове́чества разви́тием его́ обще́ственных отноше́ний (ме́жду про́чим, под влия́нием окружа́ющей приро́ды).

1923 [1883], Георгий Плеханов [Georgi Plekhanov], chapter II, in Социализм и политическая борьба (Г. В. Плеханов – Сочинения; II), page 45; English translation from chapter II, in Socialism and the Political Struggle (Georgi Plekhanov – Selected Philosophical Works in Five Volumes; I), 1974, page 67:

Naúčnyj socialízm predpolagájet «materialistíčeskoje ponimánije istórii», t. je. on obʺjasnjájet duxóvnuju istóriju čelovéčestva razvítijem jevó obščéstvennyx otnošénij (méždu próčim, pod vlijánijem okružájuščej priródy).

(socialism) Socialism that starts from the analysis of capitalism, revealing its inner workings and contradictions, in order to develop a plan to move from capitalism to socialism.


womban

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DSA

Until very recently, it wasn’t that socialism was toxic in a red-scare way. It was irrelevant, in a dustbin-of-history way. But then came Bernie Sanders’s 2016 candidacy, then the membership boom of DSA, then the proliferation of socialist cultural products like Chapo, and then, finally, the spectacular rise of Ocasio-Cortez.

2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine:

Democratic Socialists of America
w:Democratic Socialists of America

(US politics, socialism) Initialism of Democratic Socialists of America.


presocialist

en-adj

presocialist (comparative more presocialist, superlative most presocialist)

more presocialist (comparative)
most presocialist (superlative)
pre-socialist (alternative)

(socialism) Preceding socialism; before a socialist revolution.


presocialist

presocialists (plural)
pre-socialist (alternative)

utopian socialist
utopian socialist#English

(rare, socialism) Synonym of utopian socialist.


presocialism

(socialism) That social order preceding socialism; the transition to socialism.

utopian socialism
utopian socialism#English

(rare, socialism) Synonym of utopian socialism.


scientific socialist

en-noun

scientific socialist (plural scientific socialists)


stagist

(communism) Of or pertaining to stagism.


para-fascism

parafascism (alternative)
para-Fascism (alternative)

/ˌpæɹəˈfæʃɪz(ə)m/

/ˌpɛɹəˈfæʃˌɪzəm/

From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + fascism.

prefix

Portugal, Austria, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, the Baltic States, all provide examples of this Ersatz fascism, or what might be termed 'para-fascism'.

1996, Gunter Berghaus, Günter Berghaus, Fascism and Theatre: Comparative Studies on the Aesthetics and Politics of Performance in Europe, 1925-1945, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 19:

It is perhaps too early to say how Spanish para-fascism differed from (national-) Catholicism in its treatment of the foreign.

2010 October 27, C. Rundle, K. Sturge, Translation Under Fascism, Springer, →ISBN, page 113:

(fascism) A social order giving off impressions of being dynamically fascist and populist, but trying to abstain from its most radical practices.


Revisionist Maximalism

(fascism, historical) A short-lived Jewish fascist movement.


socialism in one country

(socialism) The theory and practice of attaining socialism without world revolution.


neoclassical liberalism

Jardine says the neoclassical liberalism of the postindustrial economy contained two major postulates: a return to laissez-faire economics and a revival of Protestant morality to counteract the growing moral permissiveness.

2013, Arthur W. Hunt with Anthony Selvaggio, chapter 5, in Surviving Technopolis: Essays on Finding Balance in Our New Man-Made Environments, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 68:

(capitalism) Capitalist ideology which stresses the importance of deregulation and private ownership over the means of production.

(capitalism) Capitalist ideology that focuses on the compatibility of support for civil liberties and free markets on the one hand and a concern for social justice or the worst-off’s well-being on the other.


Italian Social Republic

collaborationist state
collaborationist state

(fascism) A collaborationist state that existed from 1943 to 1945.


Ustashe

Ustache (alternative)
Ustachi (alternative)
Ustase (alternative)
Ustaše (alternative)
Ustashi (alternative)
Ustasi (alternative)
Ustaši (alternative)

(fascism, history) Of or pertaining to Croatian ultranationalism.


Ustashe

en-noun

Ustashe (countable and uncountable, plural Ustashes)

Ustashes (plural)
Ustache (alternative)
Ustachi (alternative)
Ustase (alternative)
Ustaše (alternative)
Ustashi (alternative)
Ustasi (alternative)
Ustaši (alternative)

(fascism, history, uncountable) A Croatian ultranationalist force active from the 1920s to the mid-1940s.

(countable, fascism, history) A Croatian ultranationalist.


early Showa

(fascism, history) Pertaining to the Empire of Japan’s history spanning from December 1926 to September 1945.


compulsory heterosexuality

In none of these books, which concern themselves with mothering, sex roles, relationships, and societal prescriptions for women, is compulsory heterosexuality ever examined as an institution powerfully affecting all these; or the idea of "preference" or "innate orientation" even indirectly questioned.

1980 Summer, Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, in Signs, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, page 633:

How could I have missed this milestone of compulsory heterosexuality? Who would teach my daughter whatever girls with fathers learned on these dates and dances, like how to wait for doors to be opened or hold a fork like an unmistakable catch?

2019 April 26, Asha French, “A ‘Daddy-Daughter Date,’ Queer Single Mom-Style”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(feminism, LGBTQ) The idea that heterosexuality is often assumed and forced upon individuals regardless of their own sexual orientation by a patriarchal and heteronormative society.


comphet

comp-het (alternative)
comp het (alternative)

Because heterosexuality is, by and large, presented as the only acceptable sexuality to have, comp het assumes that one might choose heterosexuality by default, even if one is not strictly hetero, in order to escape such punishment.

2019 June 3, Anna Pulley, “Ask Anna: Am I really attracted to men, or just responding to heteronormativity?”, in Chicago Tribune:

compulsory heterosexuality
compulsory heterosexuality#English

(feminism, LGBTQ) Abbreviation of compulsory heterosexuality.


Marxism-Leninism-Maoism

(politics, communism) A communist ideological stream which seeks to synthesize Marxism-Leninism and Maoism and which proponents believe is the highest stage of Marxism. It was systematized by the Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path) and developed by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement and its adherent parties.


himpathetic

Blend of him + sympathetic, or of himpathy + sympathetic.

Yet it would be a mistake to view them as on a different plane of moral obtuseness, as opposed to merely being on the extreme end of a himpathetic spectrum on which many of us lie. Brock Turner's defenders exhibited forgiving tendencies, ...

2017, Kate Manne, Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 200:

But in a himpathetic world view this does make sense because the question we are invited to ask is what does it mean for him? That Kavanaugh's (and, to an extent, Thomas's) privilege is such that his greatest fear is the loss of his name […]

2019, Karen Boyle, #MeToo, Weinstein and Feminism, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 113:

This was picked up and repeated by women in the media who were “himpathetic” to the idea. Trump's win “gives us an opportunity to reflect on how badly misogynist forces can distort our thinking and bias our reasoning” (Manne 2019, 250).

2019, Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 98:

When a woman fails to give a man what he's supposedly owed, she will often face punishment and reprisal — whether from him, his himpathetic supporters, or the misogynistic social structures in [society].

2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 11:

(feminism) Exhibiting or pertaining to himpathy; inappropriately sympathetic to men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.


himpathize

en-verb

himpathize (third-person singular simple present himpathizes, present participle himpathizing, simple past and past participle himpathized)

himpathizes (present singular third-person)
himpathizing (participle present)
himpathized (participle past)
himpathized (past)

Blend of him + sympathize, or of himpathy + sympathize.

As Manne (2017) and Solnit (2017) have shown, we tend to sympathize (or 'himpathize') too much with men and their standpoints, and not enough with women and their standpoints. This results in a tendency to downplay men's transgressions ...

2019, Michelle Ciurria, An Intersectional Feminist Theory of Moral Responsibility, Routledge, →ISBN:

... move in the political realm, particularly when they are challenging male authority. Female misogynists have made themselves visible in this era, being willing to exonerate, himpathize, and dismiss other women's concerns and accusations, were crucial to the outcome.

2019, L. H. Blumenfeld, Female Misogyny and Political Power, in Maria B. Marron, Misogyny and Media in the Age of Trump, Lexington Books, page 4

So here, as elsewhere, we ought to resist the pressure to himpathize. Incels have generated many headlines recently. It's easy to understand why, given the egregiously violent acts of misogyny some incels have committed.

2020, Kate Manne, Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Crown, →ISBN, page 30:

(feminism, rare) To exhibit himpathy; to inappropriately sympathize with men or boys, especially ones guilty of sexual transgressions.


liberal feminism

en-noun

liberal feminism (countable and uncountable, plural liberal feminisms)

(politics, feminism) A type of feminism defined by its focus on achieving gender equality within the framework of liberal democracy and through political and legal reform


neo-Fascism

Italian Social Republic
Italian Social Republic

(fascism, history) The ruling ideology of the Italian Social Republic.


theofascist

en-adj

theofascist (comparative more theofascist, superlative most theofascist)

more theofascist (comparative)
most theofascist (superlative)

(fascism, uncommon) Of or pertaining to theofascism; theocratically fascist.


theofascist

(fascism, uncommon) A proponent of theofascism; a theocratic fascist.


fascistlike

fascistlike (comparative more fascistlike, superlative most fascistlike)

more fascistlike (comparative)
most fascistlike (superlative)

Winterbotham introduced Rosenberg to Oliver Locker-Lampson, who was then the leader of a fascistlike organization called the Blueshirts.

1997, James Pool, Suzanne Pool, chapter 7, in Who Financed Hitler, U.S.A., →ISBN, page 308:

(fascism) Reminiscent of the Fascists; somewhat fascist.


mutual aid

From mutual + aid. Popularised by the anarcho-communist philosopher, Peter Kropotkin.

(anarchism, communism, philosophy, by extension) A voluntary reciprocal exchange of resources and services for mutual benefit.


withering away of the state

en-noun

withering away of the state (uncountable)

Coined by Friedrich Engels in 1878 for his work, "Anti-Dühring", from Calque of German der Staat wird nicht „abgeschafft“, er stirbt ab (“the state is not "abolished", it atrophies”)

cal

(politics, Marxism, communism) The proposed situation where, in a classless society, people govern themselves as a commune without needing a government or law enforcement.


Aunt Tabby

(feminism, historical, derogatory) A woman who opposes the feminist movement or regards it as too radical.


campist

(derogatory, politics, socialism, slang) A leftist who supports any country/organization simply for being opposed to the United States or the West, including authoritarian governments who would otherwise not follow leftist beliefs.


patsoc

(communism, Internet slang) A supporter of socialist patriotism.

(communism, Internet slang, derogatory) A Marxist-Leninist who supports chauvinist positions.


patsoc

(communism, Internet slang) Supporting socialist patriotism.

(communism, Internet slang, derogatory) Supporting Marxism-Leninism but also chauvinist positions


pseudo-fascism

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pseudo-Fascism (alternative)
pseudofascism (alternative)

(fascism) Politics that resemble fascism in some respects, but not in others.


political commissar

en-noun

political commissar (plural political commissars)

(communism, military) A supervisory political officer responsible for ideological education and organization.


Tsedenbalism

Borrowed from Mongolian цэдэнбализм (cedenbalizm). By surface analysis, Tsedenbal + -ism.

bor+

(communism, historical) The communist ideology espoused by former Mongolian leader Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal.


central committee

en-noun

central committee (plural central committees)

central committees (plural)
Central Committee (alternative)

The four-day, closed-door meeting of the ruling Chinese Communist party (CCP) central committee, known as the sixth plenum, is expected to produce a resolution on the history of the party, which analysts say will shape domestic politics and society for decades to come.

2021 November 8, Vincent Ni, Helen Davidson, “Summit of political elite opens in China as Xi eyes extraordinary third term”, in The Guardian:

(communism) A standing administrative body of communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states.


para-communism

From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + communism.

prefix

In a later section we must examine communism as a world force, but here it is to be observed that just as Chinese democracy is not the same thing as Western democracy but a para-democracy, so Chinese communism is not by any means the Russian article, but a para-communism.

1939, H. G. Wells, “The Chinese Outlook”, in The Fate of Man (Essay Index Reprint Series), Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 182:

It was Chiang who, on the advice of Borodin and his numerous Russian assistants, gave the Kuomintang (National People's Party) a definite Communist tinge and an organization akin to that of the Soviet Communist Party and the party cells. Kuomintang was consequently described by some observers as a kind of para-communism.

1968, W. Petro, Triple Commission, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 96:

Indeed, at the heart of the allergy of communism and para-communism to the environmental cause is the Marxist heritage which, in this area, was carefully preserved by Lenin and his successors.

2022, Philippe Buton, “The French Left and the Politicization of Environmental Issues”, in European History Quarterly, volume 52, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

(communism) An ideology or organization bearing similarities with communism.


male-

Ignoring male-odorous patriarchal rituals and ceremonies, we celebrate New Sparks of Elemental Feminist Genius with our own festivals.

1998, Mary Daly, Quintessence: Realizing the Archaic Future:

(rare, derogatory, feminism) Variant of mal-; used to associate men with negative things


femstruate

en-verb

femstruate (third-person singular simple present femstruates, present participle femstruating, simple past and past participle femstruated)

femstruates (present singular third-person)
femstruating (participle present)
femstruated (participle past)
femstruated (past)

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Blend of fem- + menstruate, to avoid the word men.

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menstruate.


femopause

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Blend of fem- + menopause, to avoid the word men.

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menopause.


red wedding

The first sense derives from red as an adjective meaning associated with or supportive of communism. The second sense derives from The Red Wedding scene in A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin.

As the church sought to make these events significant with its ceremonies, so did the Communists with their “Red weddings,” “Red funerals” and “Red christenings.”

1942 October, Albert Rhys Williams, “Religion in the USSR”, in Soviet Russia Today, page 15:

They celebrated “red weddings” at factories, bride and groom standing before a piece of machinery and pledging their loyalty first to the communist state, then to each other.

1994, Woodford McClellan, Russia: The Soviet Period and After, page 77:

Soon "Red weddings" replaced church weddings for dedicated Communists.

1998, Ronald Grigor Suny, The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States, page 186:

(dated, communism) A wedding ceremony in the Soviet Union in which the couple pledged loyalty to the state or communism in addition to reciting marriage vows.


femstruation

en-noun

femstruation (usually uncountable, plural femstruations)

Blend of fem- + menstruation, to avoid the word men.

(rare, nonstandard, feminism) Synonym of menstruation.


manel

(feminism, informal, derogatory, neologism) A panel of speakers that fails to include any women.


Tsedenbalist

(communism, historical) A supporter of Tsedenbalism.


male pattern violence

Apparently modelled on male pattern baldness.

As civilization collapses, we will see an increase in male-pattern violence. We will see an increase in violence against those who resist. We will see an increase in violence against people of color.

2011, Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith, Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet:

As feminists have known for years: the issue is male-pattern violence, and sexual assault is only one facet of this violence which keeps women in a subservient class to men.

2019, Martin Gitlin, Sexual Consent, page 86:

(feminism) Violent behavior thought to be characteristic of men.


Free Soviets

(history, anarchism, communism) An anarchist territory in southern Ukraine during the Russian Civil War


woman-identified-woman

Their father hasn't contributed except periodically to their support. He has the option of living his life style as he wishes, but I have to hide and deny my life style as a woman-identified-woman or risk losing my children.

1980 April 12, M. Amish, “The Right to Be a Parent”, in Gay Community News, page 12:

(feminism) A lesbian, whether political or native-born.


labour aristocracy

labour aristocracy (countable and uncountable, plural labour aristocracies)

labour aristocracies (plural)
labor aristocracy (alternative)
aristocracy of labour (alternative)
aristocracy of labor (alternative)

Compound of labour + aristocracy.
The theory about relatively privileged proletarians, thus more manipulable into collaborating with the bourgeoisie, was formulated by Friedrich Engels in a letter to Karl Marx [7 October 1858].
A precursor to the wording appears in Marx's Das Kapital, Volume I [1867].

Важно то, что экономически откол слоя рабочей аристократии к буржуазии назрел и завершился, а политическую форму себе, ту или иную, этот экономический факт, эта передвижка в отношениях между классами найдет без особого «труда».

1973 [1916], Vladimir Lenin, Империализм и раскол социализма (В. И. Ленин – Полное собрание сочинений; 30), page 170; English translation from Imperialism and the Split in Socialism (V. I. Lenin – Collected Works; 23), translation of original in Russian, 1974, page 117:

Važno to, što ekonomičeski otkol sloja rabočej aristokratii k buržuazii nazrel i zaveršilsja, a političeskuju formu sebe, tu ili inuju, etot ekonomičeskij fakt, eta peredvižka v otnošenijax meždu klassami najdet bez osobovo «truda».

He [Bakunin] found that there is a labour aristocracy of more developed, literate individuals, as well as an unconscious mass of workers.

1957 September, George Molnar, “Anarchism”, in Libertarian, number 1:

So they had indigenous folks who were members of the IWW, they had folks of African descent, they had folks who spoke Spanish, the Italians were coming, everybody was making their way to the IWW. But a lot of people don’t know that this movement waged a fierce battle against what can be called the labour aristocracy up to the government and the corporations at the time, who were brutally ruthless in their repression.

2009 June 27, Jose Antonio Gutiérrez Danton, quoting Ashanti Omowali Alston, “Building a Non-Eurocentric Anarchism in Our Communities: Dialogue with Ashanti Alston”, in anarkismo.net:

(socialism) Segment of the working class that enjoys a relatively privileged position compared to the rest of the working class as a result of higher salaries, better working conditions, etc., and which can lead them to have different interests and perspectives even though they continue to be exploited by capitalists.

Das Kapital
Das Kapital, Volume I
Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx
New Left Review
Penguin Books
labour aristocracy


hamsick

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(communism, Internet slang, derogatory, neologism) A communist, or a supporter of communism.

(communism, Internet slang, derogatory, neologism, by extension) A supporter of far-left views or the Soviet Union.


faux frais

Unadapted borrowing from French faux frais.

ubor

(Marxism, capitalism) The faux frais of production.


urinary leash

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(feminism, historical) The former situation of women being largely confined to their homes because of a lack of public toilets for women.


male as norm

(grammar, feminism) The principle that holds that grammatical and lexical devices such as the use of the feminine suffix -ess and the use of man to mean human, strengthen the perceptions that the male category is the norm, and that corresponding female categories are thus less important.


workers' paradise

en-noun

workers' paradise (plural workers' paradises)

(communism) A society where all individuals would have their needs provided for by the government.


workers' salute

workers' salute (plural workers' salutes)

(labour, communism, socialism) A type of raised fist salute associated with the labor movement.


manclaiming

(feminism, rare, derogatory) A man's practice of claiming a woman's work as his own.


male-identified

I'm here to tell you that lesbian battering occurs in all kinds of lesbian relationships. I am a butch and I was a victim of it. All kinds of women can be abused, and many different kinds of women can be abusers. It's not going to be as easy as pointing fingers at those who are "male-identified" or have "internalized homophobia," and saying the problem is over there.

1984 February 4, Anne Franklin, “Who Are The Experts?”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 28, page 6:

(feminism, of a woman, derogatory) Aligned with patriarchal interests.


redfash

From red (“communist”) + fash (“fascist”).

redfash and tankie-kind are fascinating because theyll be so incredibly authoritarian as to reject autonomy in any way, theyll buy into reactionary black and white thinking, idolize regimes without worker ownership and fervent nationalism; and then they call anarchists fascists.

redfash seem out to prove horseshoe theory is a thing

2022 September 26, u/Tuggerfub, Reddit, r/tankiejerk:

(informal, derogatory, politics, communism, fascism) Someone who combines communism and fascism.


anarchist calisthenics

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Coined by American political scientist and anthropologist James C. Scott in 2012 in the book-length essay Two Cheers for Anarchism.

coinage

(anarchism) The practice of breaking, typically trivial, laws and rules to encourage independent thinking and action and to challenge authoritative norms.


supershero

Blend of superhero + she. By surface analysis, super- + shero.

Sandee's polar opposite in every way is real life supershero supermodel Waris Dirie, a resplendent Somali native who has come out of the closet about a horrific secret from her childhood — a female circumcision performed on her at the age of six.

1998, Ventura, Varla, 1958-, Sheroes : bold, brash, and absolutely unabashed superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena, page 231:

Add action figures to the block area to encourage superhero and supershero play.

1998, York, Stacey, 1957-, Big as life : the everyday inclusive curriculum, page 126:

It isn’t just that the entertainment media are feminizing the superhero. It’s that today’s superheroes and the more recently emerging supersheroes almost always and exclusively use violence to solve problems, and enjoy beating up the bad guy to boot.

2005, Prothrow-Stith, Deborah, 1954-, Sugar and spice and no longer nice : how we can stop girls' violence, page 36:

She holds the position of Senior Professor of Kabba Lah Lah Yoga at the Jewlicious Festival, teaches classes on Jewish women supersheroes at retreats in Maui, and serves on the advisory board for Schmooze, the Sidney Krum Jewish Culture Conference.

2008, Lisa Alcalay Klug, Cool Jew, page 233:

I created an avatar, supershero, and alter-ego named Amrita Simla. Via my immigrant supershero, I retaliate against labels of exotic, submissive, or compliant women, stereotypes we encounter as South Asian Americans.

2019, Women and Migration - Responses in Art and History, page 331:

In 1992, VNS Matrix, a feminist artist collective based out of Adelaide, launched All New Gen, a new media artwork using the language and aesthetic of videogames to “disrupt the machismo world of video games with a female non binary centric computer game” where “an omnipresent supershero collaborates with her band of DNA Sluts to bring down Big Daddy Mainframe” (VNS Matrix 1992).

2023, Keogh, Brendan, The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist: Why We Should Think Beyond Commercial Game Production, page 66:

(feminism) A female superhero (especially in the sense of a remarkable human).