radical
adjective
of or going to the root or origin; fundamental.
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M. Lamennais seems to be only the tool of a quasi-radical party, which flatters him in order to use him, without respect for a glorious, but hence forth powerless, old age.
From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon