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reformism

NOUN
  1. a doctrine of reform

How To Use reformism In A Sentence

  • In fact, reformism of one sort or another is the natural first reaction of any exploited or oppressed group when it begins to stir into action against its suffering.
  • Visiting Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Britain, he reported on wages, working conditions and the movement, hobnobbed with radicals, addressed meetings and poured scorn on 'reformism' and 'trade union fakirs'. Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 7
  • The old nostrums of national reformism are well and truly dead.
  • Turati's "reformism" seems to be less opportunistic than it was, but as long as he insists, as he does to-day, that it is only conditions that have changed and not his reformist tactics, that the revolutionaries are moving towards the reformists, the relation of the two factions is likely to remain as embittered as ever. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
  • He knows that the Labour Party's abandonment of social reformism and its disassociation from the working class would never have been possible without trade union backing.
  • Such trite sentiment revealed the kind of reformism that some radicals detected in an Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 21
  • In Lenin's day, 'reformism' was the ultimate transgression for Communists: now it is their saving grace. Reform or Revolution?
  • This while I have always been critical of the LCP for its Leninist-Stalinist rigidity, and its ineffective "reformism" as we used say. Thursday, June 30, 2005
  • One part of what we have to do is contest reformism's ideas and practices, in direct argument and propaganda.
  • Lenin, no passive waiting type, differentiated between reforms, which are good, and reformism, which is horrible. Matthew Yglesias » Sherri Berman: Progressives Must Believe in Change
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