Ideas that are named by adversaries rather than adherents seem to be generally endure longer. Slur names don’t count. Capitalism Neoliberalism Allopathy (mainstream medicine, named by homeopaths) India (named by Persians/Greeks) Cultural Marxism Intellectual Darkweb (new today)
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Replying to @typhoonjim @diachronist
It’s not common now, but it was a common term back in the day when homeopathy had not yet been discredited and was briefly first among equals in the alt medicine world.
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Not sure what you mean. Communism was self-named right? Communist manifesto by Marx? And it lasted only about 150, short by ideology standards
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But originally it was literally the acronym for national socialists, before being recoded as a pejorative by adversaries
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