provocationism

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noun

A policy of agitation.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nounprovocationism (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableA policy of agitation.

    However, when provocationism stalks strategically to condition workingmen, the mentioned city riff-raff, "the orthodox Marxists", to put a good style/face on their "turn-coat" reactivism, however involuntary, […]

    1991, György Lukács, Georg Lukacs's revolution and counter revolution (1918-1921)

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