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          @@ -116,9 +116,9 @@ It is true that certain words, especially in politics, are continually changing 

           Thus the word _possibilist_. Is there anyone of sound mind who would seriously claim to want the impossible? Yet in France the term became the special label of a section of the Socialist Party who were followers of the former anarchist, Paul Brousse — and more willing than others to renounce socialism in pursuit of an impossible cooperation with bourgeois democracy.

          -Such too is the case with the word _opportunist_. Who actually wants to be an in-opportunist, and as such renounce what opportunities arise? Yet in France the term _opportunist_ ended up by being applied specifically to followers of Gambetta[[1]](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn1) and is still used in the pejorative sense to mean a person or party without ideas or principles and guided by base and short-term interests.

          +Such too is the case with the word _opportunist_. Who actually wants to be an in-opportunist, and as such renounce what opportunities arise? Yet in France the term _opportunist_ ended up by being applied specifically to followers of Gambetta [1] and is still used in the pejorative sense to mean a person or party without ideas or principles and guided by base and short-term interests.

          -The same is true of the word _transformist_. Who would deny that everything in the world and in life evolves and changes? Who today is not a "transformer?" Yet the word was used to describe the corrupt and short-term policies pioneered by the Italian Depretis.[[2]](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn2)

          +The same is true of the word _transformist_. Who would deny that everything in the world and in life evolves and changes? Who today is not a "transformer?" Yet the word was used to describe the corrupt and short-term policies pioneered by the Italian Depretis.[2]

           It would be a good thing to put a brake on the habit of attributing to words a meaning that is different from their original sense and which gives rise to such confusion and misunderstanding. But how to do it is another matter, particularly when the change in meaning is a deliberate tactic on the part of politicians to disguise their iniquitous purposes behind fine words.

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          -[[1]](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn_back1) Léon Gambetta was a prominent republican politician of the French Third Republic, until his death in 1882.

          +[1](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn_back1) Léon Gambetta was a prominent republican politician of the French Third Republic, until his death in 1882.

          -[[2]](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn_back2) Agostino Depretis was Italian prime minister nine times between 1876 and 1887. During his uninterrupted premiership from 1881 to 1887 he changed his cabinet five times, supported by majorities that shifted from the Left to the Right, based on short-term convenience rather than long-term programmes.

          +[2](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn_back2) Agostino Depretis was Italian prime minister nine times between 1876 and 1887. During his uninterrupted premiership from 1881 to 1887 he changed his cabinet five times, supported by majorities that shifted from the Left to the Right, based on short-term convenience rather than long-term programmes.

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117	117	Thus the word _possibilist_. Is there anyone of sound mind who would seriously claim to want the impossible? Yet in France the term became the special label of a section of the Socialist Party who were followers of the former anarchist, Paul Brousse — and more willing than others to renounce socialism in pursuit of an impossible cooperation with bourgeois democracy.
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119		-Such too is the case with the word _opportunist_. Who actually wants to be an in-opportunist, and as such renounce what opportunities arise? Yet in France the term _opportunist_ ended up by being applied specifically to followers of Gambetta[[1]](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn1) and is still used in the pejorative sense to mean a person or party without ideas or principles and guided by base and short-term interests.
	119	+Such too is the case with the word _opportunist_. Who actually wants to be an in-opportunist, and as such renounce what opportunities arise? Yet in France the term _opportunist_ ended up by being applied specifically to followers of Gambetta [1] and is still used in the pejorative sense to mean a person or party without ideas or principles and guided by base and short-term interests.
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121		-The same is true of the word _transformist_. Who would deny that everything in the world and in life evolves and changes? Who today is not a "transformer?" Yet the word was used to describe the corrupt and short-term policies pioneered by the Italian Depretis.[[2]](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn2)
	121	+The same is true of the word _transformist_. Who would deny that everything in the world and in life evolves and changes? Who today is not a "transformer?" Yet the word was used to describe the corrupt and short-term policies pioneered by the Italian Depretis.[2]
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123	123	It would be a good thing to put a brake on the habit of attributing to words a meaning that is different from their original sense and which gives rise to such confusion and misunderstanding. But how to do it is another matter, particularly when the change in meaning is a deliberate tactic on the part of politicians to disguise their iniquitous purposes behind fine words.
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189		-[[1]](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn_back1) Léon Gambetta was a prominent republican politician of the French Third Republic, until his death in 1882.
	189	+[1](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn_back1) Léon Gambetta was a prominent republican politician of the French Third Republic, until his death in 1882.
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191		-[[2]](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn_back2) Agostino Depretis was Italian prime minister nine times between 1876 and 1887. During his uninterrupted premiership from 1881 to 1887 he changed his cabinet five times, supported by majorities that shifted from the Left to the Right, based on short-term convenience rather than long-term programmes.
	191	+[2](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/errico-malatesta-gradualism#fn_back2) Agostino Depretis was Italian prime minister nine times between 1876 and 1887. During his uninterrupted premiership from 1881 to 1887 he changed his cabinet five times, supported by majorities that shifted from the Left to the Right, based on short-term convenience rather than long-term programmes.
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