Word: entryism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were unbelievable," outlined methods for capturing Labor at the grass roots. The program of the group, dubbed "Red Moles" by London's Daily Mirror, also includes fomenting an economic and political crisis in Britain that would result in the apocalyptic collapse of capitalism. One key tactic advocated is "entryism," a neologism coined by Leon Trotsky in 1934 to describe the infiltration of legal political organizations for subversive purposes. Some defectors from Militant accuse it of crudely totalitarian goals. Said one: "There would be less freedom than there is under capitalism. There would be more dissidents in prison than there...
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