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

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

It is the revolutionism of one who has slept a hundred years.

From Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Pater, Walter

Involved in this revolutionism lie all the other peculiarities, as seed-corn in the sheath.

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

Anarchy, we may say, is born of the marriage of the social philosophy of the eighteenth century with the revolutionism of the nineteenth; it is a bloody renaissance of social utopism.

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

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

From Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Pater, Walter