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The political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society
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radicalism
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Radicalism \Rad"i*cal*ism\ (r[a^]d"[i^]*kal*[i^]z'm), n. [Cf. F. radicalisme.] The quality or state of being radical; specifically, the doctrines or principles of radicals in politics or social reform. Radicalism means root work; the uprooting of all ...
Wiktionary
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n. Any of various radical social or political movements that aim at fundamental change in the structure of society
Wikipedia
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The term " Radical " (from the Latin radix meaning root) during the late 18th-century and early 19th-century identified proponents of democratic reform, in what subsequently became the parliamentary Radical Movement . Historically, Radicalism began in the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1819 in the political sense, from radical (adj.) + -ism .
Usage examples of radicalism.
American capitalism feeds in turn the greater radicalism of the American Right and the culture of American nationalism.
There is no extreme of radicalism or conservatism, of individualism or socialism, of Republicanism or Democracy, which does not rest its argument on this one consummate principle.
But the value and effect of his radicalism is seriously impaired by the manner in which it is qualified.
The radicalism of Hearst is simply an unscrupulous expression of the radical element in the Jeffersonian tradition.
But he would site it in the very unfashionable faubourg Saint-Antoine: the heart of artisan Paris, and the fulcrum of sans-culotte radicalism in the Revolution.
Lafayette, whose budding radicalism greatly displeased the King and Queen, but who was included at the behest of his kinsman Noailles.
Those aspects of life in prison camp which, as we can now see, had helped to convert him from the radicalism of his youth were simply overlooked or subordinated to the more prominent overall impression.
Populist strain in Russian radicalism which involved a deep emotional commitment to the values of the people and believed in their immense potential.
Her protest, her radicalism, everything was an extension of her family life.
Islamic revivalism and reformism were strong at different times in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the current forms of Islamic radicalism bear distinct similarities to those previous movements.
Russian civic radicalism, young Dostoevsky was arrested along with other members of a St.
Russian radicalism, sparked off by the prospect of reform at the end of the 1850s and the beginning of the 1860s.
Seward had succeeded in turning him, was the radicalism of revenge upon the authors of the Rebellion.
The radicalism to which he now contemptuously indicated his opposition was that which looked to the broadening of human rights, to philanthropy, to charity, and to good deeds.
The ruling Directory was opposed on one side by the remnants of sans-culotte radicalism now led by the Equals, and on the other by those wishing to restore the old regime.