Citations:revolutionarity

Noun: "the state or quality of being revolutionary"

 * 1887, D. Mackenzie Wallace, "Secret Societies in Russia", Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume XXVI, Number 4, October 1887, 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.
 * 1982, Socialist Thought and Practice, Volume 22, Issues 1-7, page 93:
 * In explaining this problem he clearly showed that the Bulgarian communists failed the test of standards of internationalism and revolutionarity on the question of the right of Macedonian people to self-determination.
 * 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.
 * 1984, Survey Sarajevo, Volumes 11-12, page 177:
 * Somewhat later, at the Tenth Congress, Tito in a similar way stressed that the revolutionarity of the working class is given in its being
 * 1990, Jerrold Levinson, Music, Art, and Metaphysics: Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics, Oxford University Press (2011), ISBN 9780191615788, unnumbered page:
 * A similarly obvious distinction, but one whose nonobservance is the root of a certain class of problematic cases, is that between permanent and time-relative ways of taking certain art attributes, among them originality, provocativeness, revolutionarity.
 * 1996, Sculpture, Volume 15, page 92:
 * Tršar stated for the media: "My aim was to present 'revolutionarity' of the Slovene nation in all its grandeur.
 * 2009, Holger Heide, "The European Experience: The Millionfold Trauma of the Twentieth Century is Still Virulent", in Globalization and Regional Integration in Europe and Asia (ed. Nam-Kook Kim), ISBN 9780754676133, page 75:
 * The problem lies much more in the fact that all these developments, including the resistance to them — and this independent of the degree of "militancy" — still take place within capital. This necessarily calls for a completely different revolutionarity.