Thatcherism

English

Etymology

From Thatcher +‎ -ism. Popularized by Jamaican-born British sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall in an article in Marxism Today, see quotations.

Proper noun

Thatcherism

1. (UK politics) The political ideology attributed to the governments of British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1979–1990), characterised by, among other things, a free market economy, privatisation, low taxation, austerity and opposition to unionisation.
   • 1979 January, Stuart Hall, “The Great Moving Right Show”, in Marxism Today, page 14:

     Thus “Thatcherism” is—give or take one or two elements—the corresponding political bedfellow of a period of capitalist recession: the significant differences between this and other variants of Tory “philosophy” being conceived as without any specific pertinent political or ideological effects.

Related terms

• Thatcher effect
• Thatcheresque
• Thatcherian
• Thatcher illusion
• Thatcherisation
• Thatcherise
• Thatcherist
• Thatcherite
• Thatcherization
• Thatcherize
• Thatchernomics
• Thatcher's children

 

Translations

political ideology of Thatcher's governments

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撒切爾主義／撒切尔主义 (Sāqiè'ěr zhǔyì)

• Czech: thatcherismus m
• Danish: thatcherisme c
• Dutch: thatcherisme n
• Finnish: thatserismi, thatcherismi, thatcherilaisuus, thatcheriläisyys
• French: thatchérisme (fr) m
• Georgian: ტეტჩერიზმი (ṭeṭčerizmi)
• German: Thatcherismus m
• Italian: thatcherismo (it) m
• Japanese: サッチャリズム (satcharizumu)
• Korean: 대처주의 (daecheojuui), 대처리즘 (daecheorijeum)
• Norwegian: thatcherisme m
• Polish: thatcheryzm (pl) m, taczeryzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: thatcherismo m
• Romanian: thatcherism n
• Russian: тэтчери́зм (ru) m (tɛtčerízm)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тачерѝзам m

  Roman: tačerìzam (sh) m

• Spanish: thatcherismo m
• Thai: ลัทธิแทตเชอร์ (lát-tí tɛ̂ɛt-chəə)
• Turkish: thatcherizm
• Ukrainian: тетчери́зм m (tetčerýzm)