tailismn.
/ˈteɪlɪz(ə)m/ Politics.
In Communist jargon, the fault of accommodating policy to the wishes of the masses, thereby following in their wake rather than taking an active revolutionary role.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [noun] > faults according to communist theory
revisionism1856
practicism1931
objectivism1933
reification1937
tailism1948
practicalism1950
diversionism1955
capitulationism1963
1933 tr. V. Lenin What is to be Done? ii. 52 It would be more correct to describe its tendency not as opportunism, but khvostism (from the word khvost)... [Note] Khvost is the Russian word for tail.]
1948 J. Towster Polit. Power in U.S.S.R. ix. 180 A double injunction against either ‘commanding’ or ‘tailism’ (following, instead of showing initiative).
1957 Economist 26 Oct. 320/1 After three months, all the crimes in the jargon book of communist heresy—including such esoteric offences as..‘tailism’ (‘refusal to lead the masses’)—have been hurled at the hundreds of eminent non-party rightists uncovered or named during..the recent disharmony.
1966 tr. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung xi. 124 The reason why such evils as dogmatism, empiricism, commandism, tailism, sectarianism, bureaucracy and an arrogant attitude in work are definitely harmful..is that they alienate us from the masses.
1971 R. MacFarquhar in S. E. Fraser Educ. & Communism in China vi. 352 They read aloud the slogans... ‘Do you listen to Chairman Mao, or to doctrinairism? Shameful tailism!’
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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