Turning to the political 'realists' on 'the left', Beauvoir criticizes cases of these activists rejecting as too idealist any scruples about adopting, as the most efficient means to their end, the very practices of authoritarianism that they say they are fighting against - e.g., antifascists adopting fascist tactics (ostensibly) in order to achieve the overthrow of fascism. Beauvoir calls this a '_____' action, and one often motivated by 'opportunism' - such that, in the end, the realist ends up 'going nowhere'.