A political term first popularized in France in the 19th century, originally describing political parties or politicians who had no fixed political opinions and adapted to changes at will, but later it came to refer exclusively to the currents of thought, points of view, and actions within the workers’ movement or proletarian political parties that violated the fundamental principles or the correct line of Marxism and sought only immediate and temporary partial interests at the expense of the fundamental interests of the proletariat. It is a reflection of bourgeois or petty-bourgeois thought…
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