austeritarian meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

austeritarian

noun

Etymology From austerity + -arian.

One who advocates or enacts an authoritarian policy of austerity.

And for your Sunday night delectation, we have a reading from the letter of Enda to the Austeritarians…2013, Miriam Lord, “A reading from the letter of Enda to the Austeritarians: carry on suffering”, in The Irish Times:
Austeritarians bang on about the debt while failing to plug revenue holes.2015, Glen Newey, “The HSBC Buccaneers”, in London Review of Books:

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Nevertheless, it is useful to briefly discuss the theoretical controversies about admissible levels of debt and the tolerable duration of significant fiscal imbalances to explain why it is impossible to authoritatively delineate the universe of truly troubling cases of sustained and excessive debt accumulation from more moderate ones, and to establish that this book does not need to take sides in the academically and politically fraught debate between "austeritarians" and Keynesians.2018, Zsófia Barta, In the Red: The Politics of Public Debt Accumulation in Developed Countries, University of Michigan Press, page 8:

adj

Etymology From austerity + -arian.

Advocating or enacting an authoritarian policy of austerity.

The will to convene this Summit of the peoples and alternatives is based on a call (www.altersummit.eu ) that identifies the fundamentally political dimension of the EU crisis : the austeritarian answers are chosen knowingly although they aggravate the crisis, to impose a failover of the social order to an ultra-liberal model - at the cost of millions of jobs, abrupt social decline and significant threats to democracy itself.2012, “Our democracy against their austerity”, in Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt:
This observation is especially important because with our criticism of the existing ‘structural reforms’ being pushed through by the ‘austeritarian regime’ we do not mean to encourage the belief that reforms are not necessary; they are, especially in those countries most badly affected by the crisis.2014, Steffen Lehndorff, “The ‘Austeritarian’ Integration Dividing Europe”, in Transform! Europe:

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Financial capital and multinational companies impose an austeritarian turn (austerity and authoritarianism).2021, Gustave Massiah, “The Paris Commune, an Alterglobalism”, in Socialism and Democracy, volume 35, number 1, →DOI, page 179: