Fachidiotismus

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German

Etymology

From Fach +‎ Idiotismus, translating French idiotisme du métier. The French term was coined by Karl Marx, the German translation was coined by Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky.[1]

Noun

Fachidiotismus m (strong, genitive Fachidiotismus, no plural)

  1. (Marxism) professional overspecialization
    • 1885 [1847], Karl Marx, translated by E. Bernstein and K. Kautsky, Das Elend der Philosophie. Antwort auf Proudhons „Philosophie des Elends“ [Poverty of Philosophy], Stuttgart: Druck und Verlag von J. H. W. Dietz, page 143:
      Was die Arbeitstheilung in der modernen Gesellschaft charakterisirt, ist die Thatsache, dass sie die Spezialitäten, die Fachleute und mit ihnen den Fachidiotismus erzeugt.
      What characterises the division of labour inside modern society is that it engenders specialised functions, specialists, and with them craft-idiocy

Declension

Descendants

  • Dutch: vakidiotisme (calque)

References

  1. ^ Karl Marx (1847) Misère de la philosophie [The Poverty of Philosophy], published 1896, page 200