rightism

Barred from entering high school in 1964 because of his father's "rightism", he ended up becoming a temporary contract laborer.

A geologist, he spent 19 years in the laogai for "counterrevolutionary rightism."

In Communist parlance, "rightism" means sympathies for democracy and Western-style capitalism.

Perhaps this was a reaction to the neo-Nazism in Germany, or to political rightism in France.

He showed physical courage in the face of Nazism and Stalinism, not to mention terrorism, the Mafia and Latin American rightism.

Leftism is a code word for neo-Maoist efforts to emphasize ideology, central planning and traditional Communism, while rightism refers to leanings toward democracy and capitalism.

At a Central Committee meeting on Sept. 28, speakers accused the leadership around Mr. Grosz of "unbridled rightism," a phrase used to designate capitulation to capitalism.

In this congress, Xiang attacked both the leftism of Qu Qiubai and the rightism of Zhang Guotao, essentially claiming himself to be the only orthodox representative of Chinese revolution.

Some of these were old CCP members such as labor activists He Mengxiong and Luo Zhanglong who were blamed for their rightism only because they were against Li's extremism.

Mr. Miles's biography harps so insistently on Kerouac's nasty rightism, along with his tightfistedness and other unpleasant personal traits, that one begins to wonder what anyone saw in Kerouac once his looks were gone.

However in 1957, during the Anti-Rightist Movement, he defended Ding Ling, was accused of "rightism", and in 1958 exiled to farms in northeast China, and then in 1959 transferred to Xinjiang by the Communist authorities.

Alain Pellet, an international law scholar, criticizes "human rightism" approach as denying the principle of sovereignty and claiming a special place for human rights among the branches of international law; Alain de Benoist questions human rights premises of human equality.

In a sense, though, because Mr. Mitterrand's prewar rightism has long been discussed in whispers, the book serves him well because it demonstrates that he was never a member of either the violent rightist group known as La Cagoule, or The Hood, or of the neofascist Action Francaise.

At that time under paramount leader Deng Xiaoping the country needed talent and experience to get the country moving economically and subsequently the guilty verdicts of thousands of counterrevolutionary cases were overturned - affecting many of those accused of rightism and who had been persecuted for that crime the previous twenty two years.