mccarthyism

As an adjective machiavellian

is .

As a noun mccarthyism is

(pejorative) the mass pressure, harassment, and/or blacklisting used to pressure people to follow popular political beliefs.

As a proper noun mccarthyism is

the intense opposition, countering, fear and/or suspicion of communism, particularly in the united states during the 1950s.

As nouns the difference between mccarthyism and mercantilism

is that mccarthyism is the mass pressure, harassment, and/or blacklisting used to pressure people to follow popular political beliefs while mercantilism is an economic theory that holds that the prosperity of a nation depends upon its supply of capital, and that the global volume of trade is "unchangeable".

As a proper noun McCarthyism

is the intense opposition, countering, fear and/or suspicion of Communism, particularly in the United States during the 1950s.