junkerism
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[edit]junkerism (uncountable)
- (historical) The principles of the aristocratic party in Prussia.
- 1918, Charles Fremont Taylor, Equity, volume 20:
- Junkerism is the very opposite of democracy. The essence of junkerism is privileged land ownership; that is, the ownership of large estates not adequately taxed, and not open to change of ownership […]