Defeatism is the acceptance of defeat without struggle, often with negative connotations. It can be linked to pessimism in psychology , and may sometimes be used synonymously with fatalism or determinism .
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22-445: A pink colored poster pasted on billboards around the country. In March 1945, as Red Army tanks were closing in on Berlin , Nazi officials worked feverishly to suppress "cowardice and defeatism" in their own ranks with summary death sentences. Revolutionary defeatism is a related idea, made most prominent by Vladimir Lenin , that establishes that the proletariat cannot win or gain in a capitalist war. Instead, according to Lenin,
33-452: Is commonly used in politics as a descriptor for an ideological stance that considers cooperation with the opposition party. In the military context, in wartime, and especially on the front lines, defeatism is viewed as synonymous with treason . Under military law, a soldier can be accused of being defeatist if the soldier refuses to fight by voicing doubt of the ideological validity of national policy; thus, existential questions such as "Is
44-435: The free dictionary. Defeat may refer to: the opposite of victory Debellatio Surrender (military) usually follows a defeat See also [ edit ] Defeatism Failure List of military disasters Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Defeat . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
55-435: The free dictionary. Defeat may refer to: the opposite of victory Debellatio Surrender (military) usually follows a defeat See also [ edit ] Defeatism Failure List of military disasters Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Defeat . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
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99-417: The true enemy of the proletariat is the imperialist leaders who send their lower classes into battle. Workers would gain more from their own nations' defeats, he argued, if the war could be turned into civil war and then international revolution. According to political scientist Baruch Knei-Paz, Leon Trotsky 's theory of " permanent revolution " was misrepresented by Stalin as defeatist and adventurist during
110-580: The war already lost?" and "Is the fight worth the effort?" are defeatism that connote advocacy of an alternative end to the war other than military victory. Defeatism became a buzzword in Germany following its capitulation in 1918, particularly among the Nazi Party led by Adolf Hitler , who routinely blamed this loss on a "defeatist mentality". After seizing power, his obsession with denouncing opponents for "defeatism" grew more acute as time went on, and
121-626: Was widely noted. During World War II , Hitler unexpectedly dismissed many generals for defeatism. More prudent military commanders such as Field Marshal Albert Kesselring felt constrained to present the Führer a rosier account of the battlefront situation than was realistic, to avoid being labeled "defeatist". During the last year of war, the German Volksgerichtshof ("people's court") executed many people accused of defeatist talks or acts, and their names were announced weekly in
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