Provocationism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A policy of agitation. rare, uncountable

    "However, when provocationism stalks strategically to condition workingmen, the mentioned city riff-raff, "the orthodox Marxists", to put a good style/face on their "turn-coat" reactivism, however involuntary, […]"

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"However, when provocationism stalks strategically to condition workingmen, the mentioned city riff-raff, "the orthodox Marxists", to put a good style/face on their "turn-coat" reactivism, however involuntary, […]"

Etymology

From provocation + -ism.

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