nodoginnafight
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Incrementalism is the tool of Fabian socialists.IMHO - radicalism is in the inability to work toward your goals incrementally. It's an all or nothing mentailty. It's the approach the post WW II Palestinians took in the negotiations to establishing a Jewish state in the middle east. Didn't work that well for them did it? See what that has relagated them to?
Radicals want it all their way - 100% - RIGHT NOW and they are willing to bring everyone and everything crashing down if they don't get it.
Their have been notable examples on the far right and on the far left.
What "incremental" method would you have used to free the slaves in 1865?
Actually the slaves were freed incrementally, first those in the states at war with the Union, and then later, all the rest, mostly, as apparently there are instances of there still being slaves in the US, just not in that particular context...
and since it took more than 100 years for blacks to become completely free and equal participants in U.S. society - I would call the process PAINFULLY incremental.