para-communism
English
Etymology
From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + communism.
Noun
para-communism (uncountable)
- (communism) An ideology or organization bearing similarities with communism.
- 1939, Wells, H. G., “The Chinese Outlook”, in The Fate of Man (Essay Index Reprint Series), Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, published 1970, →ISBN, LCCN 70-105049, OCLC 59445, page 182:
- In a later section we must examine communism as a world force, but here it is to be observed that just as Chinese democracy is not the same thing as Western democracy but a para-democracy, so Chinese communism is not by any means the Russian article, but a para-communism.
- 1968, W. Petro, Triple Commission, →ISBN, OCLC 467512, page 96:
- It was Chiang who, on the advice of Borodin and his numerous Russian assistants, gave the Kuomintang (National People's Party) a definite Communist tinge and an organization akin to that of the Soviet Communist Party and the party cells. Kuomintang was consequently described by some observers as a kind of para-communism.
- 2022, Buton, Philippe, “The French Left and the Politicization of Environmental Issues”, in European History Quarterly, volume 52, number 3, DOI:, ISSN 0265-6914, OCLC 10535838:
- Indeed, at the heart of the allergy of communism and para-communism to the environmental cause is the Marxist heritage which, in this area, was carefully preserved by Lenin and his successors.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:para-communism.
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