MacDonaldism en · NOUN
Etymology
From MacDonald + -ism after Ramsay MacDonald, founder of the British Labour Party.
Meanings
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(UK, uncountable) The centrist political policies of Ramsay MacDonald, especially after his split with the Labour Party in 1931.
The allegation of 'MacDonaldism' would still be spat at Jenkins himself as late as the 1980s.
2014, John Campbell, Roy Jenkins:In a sense this pretence is a form of 'intellectual MacDonaldism'. Where 'MacDonaldism' consists in the betrayal of the needs of the movement for personal position, the 'doctrine' commentators betray the party in a more subtle and more fundamental way.
2018, H. M. Drucker, Doctrine and Ethos in the Labour Party:Initially substance was limited but, eventually, moves to resolve this issue came with the publication of For Socialism and Peace which proposed a move away from MacDonaldism towards a highly planned economy and large state.
2012, Matt Cole, Political Parties in Britain, page 29: