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Bonapartism
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bonapartism
English
Etymology
en :af Bonaparte -ism + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈbəʊnəpɑːtɪzəm/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bonapartism.wav Southern England
en /ˌboʊnəˈpɑɹ(ˌ)tɪzəm/ GA
Noun
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The practices and ideology of Napoleon Bonaparte.
A populist alliance between the bourgeoisie and the lumpenproletariat characterized by strong leadership and conservative nationalism.
en Anton Jäger Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization Without Political Consequences 2026 Verso https://archive.org/details/hyperpolitics/page/n54/mode/1up [Dylan] Riley finds a more apt analogy in Bonapartism, iconically described by Marx in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte. Where Trump casts himself as the champion of the victims of globalization, Louis Napoleon relied on the largely passive support of impoverished peasants, not a collective but “formed by the simple addition of isomorphous magnitudes, much as potatoes in a sack form a sack of potatoes.”
Related terms
en Bonapartist
Translations
pratices and ideology of Napoleon Bonaparte
Arabic: ar بونابرتية f
Armenian: hy բոնապարտիզմ
Azerbaijani: az bonapartizm
Basque: eu bonapartismo
Bulgarian: bg бонапартизъм m
Catalan: ca bonapartisme m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 波拿巴主義 Bōnábā zhǔyì
Czech: cs bonapartizmus m, cs bonapartismus m
Dutch: nl bonapartisme n
Esperanto: eo bonapartismo
Finnish: fi bonapartismi
French: fr bonapartisme m
Galician: gl bonapartismo m
German: de Bonapartismus m, de Napoleonismus m
Greek: el βοναπαρτισμός m
Hungarian: hu bonapartizmus
Italian: it bonapartismo m
Japanese: ja ボナパルティズム bonaparutizumu
Korean: ko 보나파르트주의
Persian: fa بناپارتیسم
Polish: pl bonapartyzm m
Portuguese: pt bonapartismo m
Romanian: ro bonapartism n
Russian: ru бонапарти́зм m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh бонапартѝзам m
Latin: sh bonapartìzam m
Slovene: sl bonapartizem m
Spanish: es bonapartismo m
Swedish: sv bonapartism c
Tamil: ta போனபார்த்தியம்
Turkish: tr bonapartizm
Turkmen: tk bonapartizm
Vietnamese: vi chính thể Bô-na-pac, vi chủ nghĩa Bô-na-pac
en eponyms
en Napoleonic Wars