McCarthyism

English Etymology en mass pressure :af McCarthy<id:surname from Irish> -ism<id:action nouns> 1 From en McCarthy -ism, en United States Senator Joseph McCarthy = 1. Originates from a 1950 Washington Post political cartoon by Herbert Block. Pronunciation en /məˈkɑː.θi.ɪzəm/ RP en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-McCathyism.wav Southern England en /məˈkɑɹ.θi.ɪzəm/ GA Noun - s en pejorative The mass pressure, harassment, and/or blacklisting used to pressure people to follow popular political beliefs, especially as opposed to communism. w:Carole Cadwalladr How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world https://web.archive.org/web/20241128063204/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump 2024-11-17 This is McMuskism: it’s McCarthyism on steroids, political persecution + Trump + Musk + Silicon Valley surveillance tools. It’s the dawn of a new age of political witch-hunts, where burning at the stake meets data harvesting and online mobs. Translations mass pressure Catalan: ca cacera de bruixes f Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 麥卡錫主義 Màikǎxīzhǔyì Dutch: nl mccarthyisme n German: de Blockwartmentalität f Greek: el μακαρθισμός m Polish: pl maccartyzm m Proper noun The intense opposition to, and fear and suspicion of, Communism, particularly in the United States during the 1950s. en anticommunism en 1964 Daniel Bell The Radical Right 234 An important symptom of the difference between McCarthyism and Birchism is the shift in the geographical center of gravity. Derived terms en neo-McCarthyism Translations intense opposition to Communism Belarusian: be макарці́зм Catalan: ca maccarthisme m Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 麥卡錫主義 Màikǎxīzhǔyì Dutch: nl mccarthyisme n Finnish: fi mccarthyismi French: fr maccarthysme m Georgian: ka მაკარტიზმი German: de McCarthyismus m Greek: el μακαρθισμός m Italian: it maccartismo m Japanese: ja マッカーシズム makkāshizumu Polish: pl maccartyzm m Portuguese: pt macartismo m, pt macarthismo m Russian: ru маккарти́зм m Spanish: es macartismo m, es macarthismo m, es maccarthismo m, es mccarthismo m Vietnamese: vi chủ nghĩa McCarthy Derived terms en McMuskism Related terms en McCarthyist en McCarthyistic en McCarthyite en McCarthyesque See also en witch-hunt en Cold War Politics History of the United States US politics Nationalism Conservatism