Para-communism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Para-communism is a noun meaning (communism) An ideology or organization bearing similarities with communism.
Meaning
(communism) An ideology or organization bearing similarities with communism.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
It 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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include procommunism, communism, communist, bolshevism, procommunist, communaziism.
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