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reformism|rɪˈfɔːmɪz(ə)m|
[f. reform n. + -ism.]
A policy of social, political, or religious reform; spec. in Politics, the theory that socialism can be established in an evolutionary way by reforms within a country's existing legislative system rather than by revolution. Cf. revisionism.
1904R. C. K. Ensor Mod. Socialism p. xxvi, The germs of all Von Vollmar's reformism may be found in his own speeches before Bernsteinism appeared. Ibid. p. xxvii, The concrete spirit of reformism, which is careful of national peculiarities in its domestic politics, cannot overlook them wholly in foreign affairs. 1920Contemp. Rev. Dec. 872 Your Right leaders are favouring reformism on those questions which I have called fundamental and decisive. 1926Socialist Rev. Jan. 317 Industrial Conferences where working men..are learnedly lectured by middle-class apostles of reformism. 1937‘C. Caudwell’ Illusion & Reality xii. 309 Since this Kingdom of Heaven was to be achieved by non-resistance, by heavenly forces and a general change of heart, it was bound to become mere reformism and end as a machine for tying the oppressed of the Empire to the throne of Constantine. 1957R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xli. 139 Reformism was the view..that the evils of the capitalist system could be exorcised by reforms. 1964P. G. Casanova in I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 72 The transformation of social structures in the twentieth century has brought both sides to make partial concessions to reformism. 1970F. C. Weffort in I. L. Horowitz Masses in Lat. Amer. xi. 403 Reformism was conceived within an ideological framework of consecration of the State as the only solution to social and economic problems. 1973C. D. Kernig Marxism, Communism & Western Society VII. 154/2 On the international level contemporary reformism is represented by the Socialist International founded in 1951. 1976Times 9 Aug. 11/3 Their convictions, constancy and devotional practices form in fact a needed counterweight within the church to the prevalence of reformism. |