Meanings
- uncountablecommunismAn ideology or organization bearing similarities with communism.
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.
2022, Philippe Buton, “The French Left and the Politicization of Environmental Issues”, in European History Quarterly, volume 52, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC2 more examples
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.
1939, H. G. Wells, “The Chinese Outlook”, in The Fate of Man (Essay Index Reprint Series), Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 182It 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.
1968, W. Petro, Triple Commission, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 96
Origin
From para- (prefix meaning ‘alongside, beside’) + communism.
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