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critical support en · NOUN

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1. (uncountable) Support, given to those with theoretical disagreements, in the furtherance of anti-imperialism or socialism, especially international socialism.
   • Economic sanctions, if real, lead to military sanctions, to war. The I.L.P. itself has been saying this. It should have given critical support to all Labour party candidates i.e., where the I.L.P. itself was not contesting. 1936 February, Leon Trotsky, “Once Again: The ILP”, in The New International, volume 3, number 1, New York: New International Publishing Company, page 5:
   • In short, the Fidelist and Guevarist movements have given their critical support to these parties at the same time that they have also endeavored to organize independent action movements of their own. 1974, Donald C. Hodges, The Latin American Revolution: Politics and Strategy from Apro-Marxism to Guevarism, New York: W. Morrow, →ISBN, pages 36–37:
   • The only way this isolation might have been avoided was for the Workers’ Party to bring this Farmer-Labour movement as an organised left-wing under its own leadership to a critical support of the La Follette movement, in order to split from the La Follette movement at the first opportunity, when the pressure of the initial enthusiasm had begun to subside, when the illusions had already withered. 1925 March, “The Future of the La Follette Movement”, in Communist International, number 9, London: Centropress, pages 33–34: