centralism
centralism
Definition
cen·tral·ism (-iz′əm)
noun
the principle or system of centralizing power or authority, as of a government
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.
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