| − | "'''Comsymp'''" (Communist sympathizer<ref>American Dialect Society (1991). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fifty_Years_Among_the_New_Words/3x-umCIwEYQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=john+birch+society+comsymp&pg=PA27&printsec=frontcover Fifty Years Among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991], p. 34. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 16, 2023.</ref>) is a [[neologism]] from around the 1940s<ref name=moynihanappendix>March 3, 1997. [https://sgp.fas.org/library/moynihan/appa7.html Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy – Appendix A – 7. The Cold War]. ''Federation of American Scientists''. Retrieved May 16, 2023.</ref> referring to an individual who either openly extols Communism, individual Communists, or attempts to dismiss and discredit [[anti-Communism]]. During the [[Cold War]], the term became popularized by [[movement conservative]]s such as the [[John Birch Society]] as a polemic against leftists, although the concept long predates the word itself. Ever since the outbreak of Communism in the world, sympathizers of various stripes have conspired to undermine opposition. | + | "'''Comsymp'''" (Communist sympathizer<ref>American Dialect Society (1991). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Fifty_Years_Among_the_New_Words/3x-umCIwEYQC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=john+birch+society+comsymp&pg=PA27&printsec=frontcover Fifty Years Among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991], p. 34. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 16, 2023.</ref>) is a [[neologism]] from around the 1940s<ref name=moynihanappendix>March 3, 1997. [https://sgp.fas.org/library/moynihan/appa7.html Report of the Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy – Appendix A – 7. The Cold War]. ''Federation of American Scientists''. Retrieved May 16, 2023.</ref> referring to an individual who either openly extols [[Communism]], individual Communists, or attempts to dismiss and discredit [[anti-Communism]]. During the [[Cold War]], the term became popularized by [[movement conservative]]s such as the [[John Birch Society]] as a polemic against [[leftist]]s, although the concept long predates the word itself. Ever since the outbreak of Communism in the world, sympathizers of various stripes have conspired to undermine opposition. |
| | The [[Nazis]] during the 1920s were a notable Comsymping movement, and [[Adolf Hitler]] himself remarked, "I have learned a great deal from [[Marxism]], as I do not hesitate to admit."<ref>Watson, George (November 22, 1998). [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html Hitler and the socialist dream]. ''The Independent''. Retrieved May 16, 2023.</ref> | | The [[Nazis]] during the 1920s were a notable Comsymping movement, and [[Adolf Hitler]] himself remarked, "I have learned a great deal from [[Marxism]], as I do not hesitate to admit."<ref>Watson, George (November 22, 1998). [https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/hitler-and-the-socialist-dream-1186455.html Hitler and the socialist dream]. ''The Independent''. Retrieved May 16, 2023.</ref> |