Word: vanguardism
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...nearly impossible. The party is too conservative, too resistant to change. At the time of the 1917 Revolution, the party was the agent of cataclysmic change -- but on behalf of a conspiratorial elite, not, as it claimed, on behalf of the people. Over the decades, the self-professed vanguard of the proletariat became adept at fighting rearguard actions against innovation...
...floating in the sound, Cousins asked the Coast Guard station in Valdez for permission to switch from the path taken by outgoing vessels to the one used by incoming ships. The Coast Guard gave its O.K. but then lost radar contact with the ship. The local newspaper, the Valdez Vanguard, reported that the Coast Guard two years ago replaced its radar with a less powerful unit. Had it maintained contact, the Coast Guard could have warned Cousins that he was straying close to the dangerous rocks of Bligh Reef...
When Harvard students stormed University Hall, boycotted classes and demanded campus reforms in the spring of 1969, they weren't in the vanguard of the student protest movement...
...which made the Nazi rise to power possible. I regretfully came to realize that SDS had hit upon a tactic which was unbeatable, even at Harvard... The SDS had suceeded in winning at Harvard, in having themselves accepted by all too many of the student body as our moral vanguard...
Always a numbers man, Rose was at the vanguard of baseball's economic revolt. His original ambition, "to be the first $100,000 singles hitter," sounds quaint now. In the late 1970s he made an auction out of the new free- agent system, and for $3.2 million over four years stopped off in Philadelphia to show the Phillies...