ultracentralism

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/ˌʌltɹəˈsɛntɹəlɪzəm/

noun

Excessive centralisation or centralism.

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Meanings

nounultracentralism (uncountable)
  1. MarxismespeciallyuncountableExcessive centralisation or centralism.

    Before long he was attacking Bolshevism and Lenin's idea of the party, accusing the Bolsheviks of ultracentralism and of aiming at absolute power and a party dictatorship over the proletariat.

    1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 350

Origin

From ultra- + centralism.

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