Insurrectionalism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Insurrectionalism is a noun meaning The belief that insurrection is the best way to achieve a communist or socialist revolution.
Meaning
The belief that insurrection is the best way to achieve a communist or socialist revolution.
More Meanings
- A branch within the anarchist movement that eschews formal organizations such as political parties or labor unions and emphasizes insurrection.
Example Sentences
Thus, the tactics of insurrectionalism had reached their limits.
In these situations and others, class-based insurrectionalism, led by vanguard political parties, has been shunned.
Some saw in the Malatesta-Monatte clash nothing but the re-emergence of traditional insurrectionalism over the general strike.
For a short time, insurrectionalism stood on the pedestal previously occupied in Latin America by the foquismo of Che, the people's war of Mao, and the electoral road of Allende.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include insurrectionism, insurrectionalist, revolutionism, putschism, counterrevolutionaryism, antirevolutionism.
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