entryism
nounEtymology Previously spelt entrism, borrowed from French entrisme but reconstructed as entry + -ism.
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A political tactic by which an organisation or state encourages its members or agents to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits or to encourage an unelectable candidate.
- Conservative MPs are warning of a risk of entryism in the party as the pro-Brexit group Leave.EU encourages its supporters to become members in order to back Boris Johnson or Jacob Rees-Mogg in a future leadership contest.2018 August 19, Heather Stewart, “Brexit: Tory MPs warn of entryism threat from Leave.EU supporters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2020:
- Related terms
- entryist