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but the result of that strategy,
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Brousse and his colleagues argued, was that they got nothing,
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zero, and therefore "the ideal," he wrote,
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"should be divided into overall practical stages.
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Our aim should be, as it were,
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to be immediatized so as to render them possible."
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So, reform socialism was the politics of the possible
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and they damned their revolutionary socialist rivals
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as "the impossiblists,"
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because nothing would ever come, the argument went,
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if you just followed them.
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And, so, they differ in several important ways--