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The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning. It is a fact that the end product of a process of political action can be different from what it had been originally intended to be. The final result is not always the same as the original aim. This will be a long-term goal that was initially designed to be reached from a short-term perspective.
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