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collapsism en · NOUN

Etymology

From collapse + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The belief that a system or entity will collapse.
    • Yet even in Grossman's time, at least one radical voice challenged his collapsism. Council Communist Anton Pannekoek […] charged Grossman with citing Marx's writings on capitalism's periodic crises to suggest the latter believed in the notion of a collapse from its limits. 2012, Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen, Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth:
    • Collapsism — the view that the North will fall quickly, much like East Germany — and gradualism — exactly the opposite — represent […] 1994, Korea Business World, volume 10, numbers 1-6, page 41: