English Explanatory Dictionary

antirightist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the Anti-Rightist Movement, a Chinese movement of the late 1950s involving a series of campaigns to purge alleged "rightists" (those intellectuals who appeared to favour capitalism and were against collectivization) within the Communist Party of China and abroad.

Word forms

antirightist antirightists

Etymology

From anti- + rightist.

Related words

antirightism
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