Opposition can contest means without rejecting a regime’s ends

Evidence

In the second type, the oppositionist accepts the objective goal but criticizes the subjective movement which aims at it; he may not even wish for a change of power, but he deems it necessary to bring into play a contestation which will make the subjective appear as such. Thereby he exacts a perpetual contestation of the means by the end and of the end by the means. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity, 143

Categorization

Category: Definitional Content

• DEFINE: Distinguishes the two types of opposition — one rejecting ends, one contesting the subjective movement toward the same ends — which is directly usable for applying Beauvoir’s typology.