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inopportunism

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Noun

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inopportunism (uncountable)

  1. A reluctance to take advantage of pragmatic opportunities that present themselves, usually because of ideological or theological purity.
    • 1913, Why I Am in Favor of Socialism, page 12:
      And I do not believe in the inopportunism of Socialists.
    • 1999, Roland Hill, Lord Acton, page 196:
      Who would risk a schism in a mere question of inopportunism?
    • 2011, John Riddell, Toward the United Front: Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, 1922, page 177:
      When we still had a situation where we had to reckon with revolutionary spasms, we faced what was called the 'inopportunism' of the Left, a tendency that had to be overcome.
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