Definition of "incrementalism" [incrementalism]

• Social or political gradualism. (noun)

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• "It seems like the small size of the accounts and the incrementalism is a problem."
• "My issue here is one of reality as for me to believe in incrementalism I first have to see some, any, progress towards that goal."
• "The fetish of incrementalism is symptomatic of an intellegentsia that prefers to fool itself that the democratic party is something other than merely a semblance of opposition constructed by the ruling class."