self-criticism

plural self-criticisms

1. uncountableusuallyCriticism of oneself.
2. uncountableusuallycommunismA practice of confessing and criticizing one's real or imagined transgressions in public settings, especially in East Asia.

   […] commit self-criticism and allow other people to criticize him. If we do all these things, then there is hope and there is a future for Marxism. The most important thing is consistency. If you make a promise you must keep it[…]

   1991, Edward A. Gargan, China's Fate: A People's Turbulent Struggle with Reform and Repression, 1980-1990, Doubleday Books

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   This is starting to resemble (in a much lower-stakes field, it cannot be said often enough) some Union of Soviet Cinematographers self-criticism sessions for artists whose work was considered “bourgeois formalism” or whatever made Stalin’s colon clench that week.

   2003 August 16, vjmorton, “Not-so-brave heart”, in Rightwing Film Geek