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opportunisms

opportunisms is the plural of opportunism.

Meaning of opportunism

Noun

opportunism (countable and uncountable, plural opportunisms)

  1. The practice of taking advantage of any situations or people to achieve an end, often with no regard for principles or consequences.
  2. (Marxism) The political line of Communist Party members who zealously support the Party, but whose trait is that they yield to the mood of the moment, they are unable to resist what is fashionable, leading to the sacrifice of the permanent and essential interests of the Party to the momentary and minor interests.
    • Opportunism today, as represented by its principal spokesman, the ex-Marxist Karl Kautsky, fits in completely with Marx's characterization of the bourgeois position quoted above, for this opportunism limits recognition of the class struggle to the sphere of bourgeois relations. (Within this sphere...1917, V. I. Lenin, chapter II, in The State and Revolution, section 3

Questions about opportunisms

What is opportunisms the plural of?
Opportunisms is the plural of opportunism.

Words near opportunisms in the dictionary

  1. opportuneless
  2. opportunely
  3. opportuneness
  4. opportuning
  5. opportunism
  6. opportunisms
  7. opportunist
  8. opportunistic
  9. opportunistic infection
  10. opportunistic infections
  11. opportunistic necrophiliac

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