One of them remains what it was, while the other, although it professes not to have changed a word of its previous intentions, accepts some sort of compromise, and gradually, from compromise to compromise, is driven farther from its primitive programme, and becomes a party of modest makeshift reform.
Kropotkin describes how political parties often compromise their original goals over time, leading to a dilution of their initial intentions.
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