collapsism

English

Etymology

collapse +‎ -ism

Noun

collapsism (uncountable)

1. The belief that a system or entity will collapse.
   • 1994, Korea Business World, volume 10, numbers 1-6, page 41:

     Collapsism — the view that the North will fall quickly, much like East Germany — and gradualism — exactly the opposite — represent […]

   • 2012, Sasha Lilley, David McNally, Eddie Yuen, Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth:

     Yet even in Grossman's time, at least one radical voice challenged his collapsism. Council Communist Anton Pannekoek […] charged Grossman with citing Marx's writings on capitalism's periodic crises to suggest the latter believed in the notion of a collapse from its limits.