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

Schonerum de libris revolutionism eruditiss. viri et mathemattci excellentiss.

From A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) Aspects Of Recent Science by Williams, Henry Smith

He would not hesitate to say that the revolutionism preached in the newspaper called the 'Tocsin' was dangerous, was immoral.

From Demos by Gissing, George

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

And it is quite obvious that he was becoming more and more irritated by the sentimentalism and dress-parade revolutionism of the socialist sects.

From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert