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Abolitionism has won its greatest victory in the fight against slavery, but it has also been directed against capital punishment (death penalty), the prisons, abortion, and other objects of criticism. | Abolitionism has won its greatest victory in the fight against slavery, but it has also been directed against capital punishment (death penalty), the prisons, abortion, and other objects of criticism. | ||
Used as a generic term, abolitionism could be divided into immediatist abolitionism on the one and gradualist abolitionism on the other hand. Immediatists demand the immediate (and complete) abolition of the institution and practice in question, whereas gradualists demand the gradual step-by-step-reform into the direction of overcoming them. | |||
Another usage would see "anti-slavery" as the generic term, and define "abolitionism" and "gradualism" as two competing strategies within this more generally defined ideology. | |||
In this description, abolitionism is defined by the immediatism and radicalism of its demands, thus distinguishing itself from more reformist currents that ask not for the immediate abolition, but for a gradual phasing-out of the institution in question. In this usage of the term, the opposition to a repressive institution can be divided into abolitionists (who by definition are immediatists) on the one hand and gradualists on the other. Other usages of the term would see abolitionism as encompassing all opposition ot a repressive institution, and speak of immediatists and gradualists as varieties of abolitionism. | In this description, abolitionism is defined by the immediatism and radicalism of its demands, thus distinguishing itself from more reformist currents that ask not for the immediate abolition, but for a gradual phasing-out of the institution in question. In this usage of the term, the opposition to a repressive institution can be divided into abolitionists (who by definition are immediatists) on the one hand and gradualists on the other. Other usages of the term would see abolitionism as encompassing all opposition ot a repressive institution, and speak of immediatists and gradualists as varieties of abolitionism. | ||