intercommunalism

noun

A political philosophy which holds that nations have been reduced to a series of discrete communities; adopted by the Black Panther Party to replace nationalism.

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Meanings

nounintercommunalism (countable and uncountable, plural intercommunalisms)

plural intercommunalisms

  1. countableuncountableA political philosophy which holds that nations have been reduced to a series of discrete communities; adopted by the Black Panther Party to replace nationalism.

    These transformations and phenomena require us to call ourselves “intercommunalists” because nations have been transformed into communities of the world. The Black Panther Party now disclaims internationalism and supports intercommunalism.

    2009, Huey P. Newton, To Die for the People (Illustrated ed.)

Origin

From inter- + communal + -ism.

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