revolutionarity
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revolutionarity (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being revolutionary.
- 1887 October, D. Mackenzie Wallace, “Secret Societies in Russia”, in Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume XXVI, number 4, page 398:
- Revolutionarity can exist only in the feelings of an individual man or in the periodical outbursts of the masses.
- 1965, Praxis, volume 1, page 54:
- There is, likewise, no philosophy nor any major theoretical venture in history which, irrespective of its revolutionarity, is totally free of the authority of tradition.
- 1984, Maximum Rocknroll, Issue 19, unknown page:
- If you do whatever the masses don't do or the minority does, you're just as mindless a conformist follower as they are. How revolutionary?! CRASS, M.D.C., and the Yippies are probably just suggesting a better lifestyle to be considered, not step-by-step instructions to revolutionarity.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:revolutionarity.