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kin wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by ziq in friday free talk by emma

Just for the people who think this is a recent (internet) phenomenon:

Entryism (also called entrism, enterism, or infiltration) is a political strategy in which an organisation or state encourages its members or supporters to join another, usually larger, organization in an attempt to expand influence and expand their ideas and program. If the organization being "entered" is hostile to entrism, the entrists may engage in a degree of subterfuge and subversion to hide the fact that they are an organization in their own right.

Proponents of the tactic advocated that the Trotskyists should enter the social democratic parties to connect with revolutionary socialist currents within them and then to steer those currents toward Leninism.

This was a classic ML tactics used together with other leninist concepts like democratic centralism and vanguardism

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