revolutionism

American  

[revuh-looshuh-niz-uhm] / ˌrɛvəˈluʃə nɪz əm /

noun

1. the belief or principle that revolution is desirable or necessary.

   Revolutionism is a central tenet of Marxism.

2. the quality of being revolutionary, or radically innovative.

   He may be convinced of the revolutionism of his proposals, but they are actually nothing but tired, empty phrases.

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Etymology

Origin of revolutionism

First recorded in 1790–1800; revolution ( def. ) + -ism ( def. )

Example Sentences

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revolutionism

What is distinctive about American students today, says Kenistoji, is not the beats and the draft-card burners, whose revolutionism is only beard-deep, but a new breed of "professionalists."

From Time Magazine Archive

As the type of the French movement let me specify that which I call "revolutionism" or "Putschism," a kind of conspiracy coupled with street fights.

From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Werner Sombart

He himself once suffered from excessive revolutionism, and was condemned to death by it when young, about 1794, in the reign of terror, when Monsieur Raville and others were shot at Geneva.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 554, June 30, 1832 by Various

But in this nature revolutionism is softened, harmonised, subdued as by distance.

From Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Walter Pater

I will call it "revolutionism," and I mean by that term the fact that never has there been another time, like ours, of such entire change in all the conditions of life.

From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Werner Sombart