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Meaning of collapsism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

The belief that a system or entity will collapse.

uncountable

Examples

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

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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