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quietism
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Definition:indifferent passivism; accepting a (i.e. political) situation without resistance
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Uses:
"Besides, you need not mind about lecturing us; you have nothing to boast of. With your quietism, one could live happily for a hundred years at least. One might show you the execution of a felon, or show you one's little finger. You could draw a moral from either, and be quite satisfied. That sort of existence is easy enough."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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Yes, he was a Red, and knew his Kropotkin, but he was no anarchist. On the other hand, political action was a blind-alley leading to reformism and quietism. Political socialism had gone to pot, while industrial unionism was the logical culmination of Marxism.
Jack London. The Mutiny of the Elsinore (1914)
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