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Noun

splittism ‎(uncountable)

1. Political separatism, specifically the following of independent interests as opposed to central Communist party policy.
   • 1963, Life, 12 Jul 1963, p. 4:

     The Chinese have intensified their ideological quarrel with Khrushchev to the point of an almost irreparable break. They accuse him of the most heinous Communist heresies: "adventurism" (for moving missiles into Cuba), "capitulationism" (for moving them out), "great-power chauvinism" (for interfering in non-Russian parties), "revisionism" (for not wanting nuclear war) and even "splittism."

   • 2010, The Economist, 17 Jul 2010, p. 53:

     To China's rulers it is a backward kind of place whose former serfs, ‘liberated’ by the Communist army, have repaid the favour with ingratitude and even outright ‘splittism’.

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