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politicalism en · NOUN

Etymology

From political + -ism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Political zeal.
   • Total politicalism, the absorption of everything and of the entire man by politics is one and the same phenomenon of the revolt of the masses. 2002, José Ortega y Gasset, Toward a Philosophy of History, page 71:
   • Managerialism is the opposite of politicalism (Childe, 1964), that is, making decisions based solely on political preferences. 2022, Stanisław Gasik, Projects, Government, and Public Policy, page 136:
   • He has wasted his substance in riotous politicalism, and preferred to eat the husks of financial prodigality to return to the fatted calf of honest industry and the robe and ring of progressive nationalism. 1898 October, Benjamin Taylor, “The Coming Struggle in the Pacific”, in Nineteenth Century and After, volume 44, page 664:
   • This state of disorder in the bureaucratic governmental dictatorship reveals itself throughout the whole of Russian society, from top to bottom, in the form of general discontent that finds its outward expression in the general politicalism, a politicalism that is not temporary or superficial , but profound and chronic. 1964, Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Collected Works - Volume 5, page 296:
   • Further, one of my goals is to reintroduce questions of labour into the degrowth and environmentalist movements that exclude them in favour of preoccupations with consumerism, enlightenment and politicalism. 2024, Kohei Saito, Slow Down: How Degrowth Communism Can Save the Earth:
2. (countable) Political ideology.
   • Hence you realize that, whether it is socialism or any other politicalism, there is absolutely no change on the part of the other fellow, and the best thing you can do is to devise, to create a politicalism of your own . 1922 August 19, Marcus Garvey, “Climbing Upward”, in The Negro World:
   • Such a perspective is provided by historian of technology Lynn White Jr in Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962) and his account of the importance of another military technology—the stirrup—in the rise of a different politicalism – feudalism . 2012, Max Taylor, P.M. Currie, Terrorism and Affordance, page 91:
   • All those who do neither, we will observe a policy of neutrality towards them, irrespective of any policalism they choose to follow for themselves. 2023, Veer Savarkar, The Experiences and Thoughts of Veer Savarkar:
   • Personally , I have found little to no use in fantasising about some far-off religious utopia, or politicalism that will get everyone in line and make the world a better place. 2024, James Ellis, A Call to God: A Spiritual Introduction to Christianity:
   • 'I have a very poor opinion of Communism,' he declared. 'I am no authority on any politicalisms but just on the surface of the word, I would say Communism means weak-ism. […]' 2009, Peter Doggett, There's a Riot Going On, page 1981:
3. (countable) A typical example of political speech.
   • I do not try to trace the expression of politicalisms as Merle Himmelstein, Donald Gibson, and Daniel Aaron have done. 1991, Milton R. Stern, Contexts for Hawthorne:
   • Paulding's play seemed the sort of material we should read for the Dictionary , for in a popular play of its type one might expect to find many politicalisms of the day. 1954, James N. Tidwell, “Introduction”, in The Lion of the West, page 8:
   • As I listened to myself talk, it was amazing to me how much like a politician I was starting to sound. After a day out talking with people, I would go home and work on my speech and find all kinds of politicalisms breaking into my sentences . 2012, Christopher Profeta, A Life in Pieces, page 187:

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