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UK
/ɹˈædɪkəlˌɪzəm/
]
[ US /ˈɹædɪkəˌɫɪzəm/ ]
[ US /ˈɹædɪkəˌɫɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- the political orientation of those who favor revolutionary change in government and society
How To Use radicalism In A Sentence
- Here situatedness determined ideas: moderate practice led to quietistic theory, while heightened class struggle produced theoretical radicalism.
- He studied History at the City College of New York, then a hotbed of Left-wing radicalism.
- Radicalism hates moderation and measure, and compromise hates the immeasurable.
- The country was not yet seriously challenged by separatist sentiments, religious radicalism or interethnic conflict.
- One of the most interesting points to emerge is a recognition that with hindsight, European radicalism has once again written itself as a form of diffusionism, its sources and impetuses exclusive unto itself.
- Cobbett extolled the Radicalism of Nottingham; Byron sang the praises of the Luddites.
- Nationalist feeling was a far more powerful motive force in China than social radicalism.
- In fact it is hardly likely to materialise at all as we are told any rapprochement with the social democrats depends on us turning our backs on radicalism.
- How can critical commentary 'mediate the radicalism' without itself performing a pernicious form of naturalisation in making it more accessible?
- For certain groups of students there clearly was a correlation between radicalism and frustration over employment prospects.