commandism

Dictatorial authoritarianism.

Noun

  1. Dictatorial authoritarianism.
    • As a result of Lin Piao and the "gang of four's" reckless, unbridled sabotage of the party's various policies for the rural areas, their trampling on the production team's right to stand on its own feet, and their...
    • Two months later the Party Day editorial in Jen-min jih-pao also identified commandism as the principal problem to be overcome. - 1981, Harry Harding, Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976, page 45:
    • Early in 1959 there was a rectification campaign to correct commandism as a left deviation. - 2010, Everett Zhang, Arthur Kleinman, Weiming Tu, Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience:

Origin

From command + -ism.