Classicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Classicide is a noun meaning The deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.
Meaning
The deliberate and systematic destruction of a social class.
Example Sentences
Any study of nationalism must also take into account relationships between other ideologies and forms of genocide, whether we examine the politicides and classicides of Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, the mass killing of native peoples by colonists in the Americas before the age of modern nationalism, or indeed the massacres of seventeenth-century religious wars.
Word Forms
- classicides
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include aristocide, liberticide, modernicide, politicide, eliminationism, obliterationism.
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