para-communism

English

Etymology

From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) +‎ communism.

Noun

para-communism (uncountable)

1. (communism) An ideology or organization bearing similarities with communism.
   • 1939, H. G. Wells, “The Chinese Outlook”, in The Fate of Man (Essay Index Reprint Series)‎^[1], Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, 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^[2], →ISBN, →OCLC, 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, Philippe Buton, “The French Left and the Politicization of Environmental Issues”, in European History Quarterly‎^[3], volume 52, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     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.

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