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  • The SACP's involvement in such an alliance is not, as our left-wing critics allege, a form of 'tailism' or 'populism'.

    Editorial 2001

  • The SACP's involvement in such an alliance is not, as our left-wing critics allege, a form of 'tailism' or 'populism'.

    'The Regeneration of Africa' 1906

  • The SACP's involvement in such an alliance is not, as our left-wing critics allege, a form of 'tailism' or 'populism'.

    'The Regeneration of Africa' 1906

  • (This centrist method has been called "tailism," for good reason.)

    Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends 2009

  • 'We need leaders who are not susceptible to tailism, leaders who do not give in to working-class aspirations, but who help them to form correct aspirations.

    Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003

  • It was accused of 'tailism; of' lagging behind the growing mass discontent '; of being' practically isolated from the spontaneous movement of the masses '; of' committing serious mistakes of a Right opportunist character '.

    Class & Colour in South Africa - Chapter 19 Ray Esther 1969

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