coupism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The advocacy or favoring of a coup d'état within a government or the enforcement of the political power of a minority by means of the military.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The struggle between coupism and legalism up to now has been waged between the two anti-Peronista sectors."
- "You will not understand that coupism, as a method of struggle, in reality corresponds to "a portion" of the system of classes which share in power -- the surrender-minded bourgeoisie and the big landowners -- whose influence is declining in the government and whose old privileges can be maintained only through a coup or through the interruptions of historical process, whose components, among others, are the ever growing role of the worker masses within society and, in the area of the government, a gradual shift in the balance of power towards the national bourgeoisie."
- "We are not at all plagued by sectarianism, coupism, or adventurism. Our policy is based on the acceptance and participation of the masses and the strengthening of the unity of the whole opposition."
- "Their frameworks propose multidimensional concepts of civilian control and clear criteria for differentiating various states and outcomes of civil-military relations and thereby avoid the conceptual and empirical 'fallacies of coupism' (Croissant et al., 2010)."
- "Ultimately, "coupism” in 2023 Thailand has remained alive and well."