Junkerism

[ yoong-kuh-riz-uhm ]

noun

, (sometimes lowercase)

1. the spirit or policy of the Junkers. Junkers.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Junkerism¹

First recorded in 1865–70; Junker + -ism

Example Sentences

To the Royal Military Court, Berlin: In the investigation of the case against me, the records of remarks need the following elucidation: I. The German Government is in its social and historical character an instrument for the crushing down and exploitation of the laboring classes; at home and abroad it serves the interests of junkerism, of capitalism, and of imperialism.

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There are imperialists of all countries who hold that the little countries have no right to live; Junkerism is not confined to Germany.

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It is the spirit which inspired this boastful and arrogant speech, which has so powerfully stimulated Prussian Junkerism, to which I wish to refer.

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Few of us, particularly few Americans, realize the debt which the whole world owes to Russia for her part in this four years struggle against German junkerism.

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It is hard for an Englishman to understand to what degree a literary man, like Schiller, was influenced in his writings by the critical philosophy of Kant; or how Schelling's transcendental idealism was used to support Catholicism, and Hegel made a prop to Protestant orthodoxy and Junkerism.

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