inopportunism
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[edit]Noun
[edit]inopportunism (uncountable)
- 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.