One of the modes of social movement, refers to the gradual and slow political reform measures taken by the ruling class from part to the whole to maintain its rule and correspond to the requirements of social progress without touching the fundamental system of the existing society. Commonly refers to bourgeois and petty-bourgeois political movements opposite to Marxist social revolution, i.e., the claim within the workers’ movement to leave the fundamental system of capitalism untouched and to pursue a partial and subtle mode of revolutionizing society…
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