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centralism Definition

cen·tral·ism (-iz′əm)

noun

the principle or system of centralizing power or authority, as of a government

centralism Related Forms
cen·tral·ist adjective, noun cen′·tral·is·tic adjective
centralism Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • reverse: Above all, the Thatcher reforms reversed economic centralism, by curbing the power of national unions and through privatization.

Adjective modifier

  • bureaucratic: Like the SWP, Workers Power is disabled by bureaucratic centralism - the flip side of which is, of course, anarchism.
  • Democratic: Democratic Centralism, on the other hand, is the most democratic form of organization ever known.
  • democratic: Existing CPGB comrades have also been given a very bad lesson in democratic centralism which promises further difficulties in the future.
  • excessive: That is why Devolution works, and excessive centralism does not.
  • proletarian: Won't that be the most consistent democratic centralism and, moreover, proletarian centralism?
  • genuine: Central to the struggle for this higher unity is the fight for genuine democratic centralism.

Noun used with modifier

  • top-down: It is a Conservative approach: a powerful alternative to the failure of Labor's top-down centralism.
  • state: Yet behind these policies lies the same belief in state centralism.