commandism

English

Etymology

From command +‎ -ism.

Noun

commandism (uncountable)

1. (politics, derogatory) Dictatorial authoritarianism.
   • 1978 February 17 [1978 February 16], Commentator, “Respect the Production Team's Right To Stand on Its Own Feet”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 34, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA Domestic Service and People's Daily, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, National Affairs, page E 14‎^[2]:

     As a result of Lin Piao and the "gang of four's" reckless, unbridled sabotage of the party's various policies for the rural areas, their trampling on the production team's right to stand on its own feet, and their arbitrary orders and unscrupulous commandism, agricultural production and commune members' livelihoods were greatly jeopardized.

   • 1981, Harry Harding, Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976, page 45:

     Two months later the Party Day editorial in Jen-min jih-pao also identified commandism as the principal problem to be overcome.

   • 2010, Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, Weiming Tu, Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience:

     Early in 1959 there was a rectification campaign to correct commandism as a left deviation.

Anagrams

• miscommand