commodityism en · NOUN
Etymology
From commodity + -ism.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The adoption of special legislation for specific commodities such as cotton or tobacco.
I do not want to raise the question of sectionalism or commodityism in this committee, but I am afraid the soundness of these loans to our basic commodities is becoming in ill repute in some sections of the country because of their use.
1948, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Long-range Agricultural Policy and Program, volumes 1-2, page 353:"Commodityism" was not eradicated by any single measure of the Farm Bureau in the thirties. It continued as a recurrent problem.
1959, Roland Eugene Richter, The American Farm Bureau and the New Deal, page 35: