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statism

2019年09月12日 | 英語の原書を読む
'THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES' からの引用です。
There was going to be a big atomic war on Earth in about two years, and he didn't want to be here when it happened. He and thousands of others like him, if they had any sense, would go to Mars. See if they wouldn't! To get away from wars and censorship and statism and conscription and government control of this and that, of art and science!
"statism" は "state" から派生した言葉の様なので、国家主義、国家主権主義の様な意味の様ですが、辞書で確認します。

・Oxford English Dictionary: A political system in which the state has substantial centralized control over social and economic affairs.: the rise of authoritarian statism

・Collins Dictionary: the theory or practice of concentrating economic and political power in the state, resulting in a weak position for the individual or community with respect to the government

・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry: Central American corruption, statism and crony capitalism have led to poverty and exclusion.
現在 "statism" で直ぐに思いつく国は北朝鮮、シリア、そして中国もそうかな。
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