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n. - The ideology of the politically conservative or reactionary

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  • To the general charge of "rightism" was now added a new one of '' alliance with counter-revolutionary Trotskyism. "
  • Thus, right-brain thinking is leftism, and left-brain thinking is rightism.
  • If you're paying attention, you'll see an awful lot of rightism on our so-called liberal left.
  • All 'things' conservative might be termed 'right' or 'rightism,' and the other 'things' termed 'left' or 'leftism.'
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