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

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 indeed there is always a declared opposition to general revolutionism, to "Putschism," as they assert their standpoint.

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

Her views of parties were charitable and conciliatory, and her revolutionism more reconstructive than destructive.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 by Various

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 Sombart, Werner