insurrectionalist

comparative more insurrectionalist · superlative most insurrectionalist

1. Pertaining to insurrectionalism.

   What would you say is the biggest strengths and weaknesses of insurrectionalist theories?

   2016, Sasha k, Leila, Wolfi Landstreicher, Killing King Abacus Anthology, →ISBN, page 282

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   It is in this sense that one can say that this poem contributes to form and educate the insurrectionalist spirit as well as stimulate revolt against the oppressor.

   1964, Wacław Lednicki, Zygmunt Krasiński, Romantic Universalist, page 131

   The insurrectionalist anarchists Chrissus and Odotheus argue that: 'In fact, it is this being [the multitude] that has power even when everything would seem to bear witness to the contrary.

   2012, Benjamin Noys, Persistence of the Negative, →ISBN, page 115

plural insurrectionalists

1. alternativeAlternative form of Insurrectionalist.

   Power-sharing between the Sandinista left and other groups was an important factor in creating a nationwide insurrectionalist alliance in early 1978.

   1984, UFSI Reports

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   ModestIy-armed insurrectionalists battled in the streets against Somoza's 7,500-member National Guard — 4,200 of which have been trained by the U.S. in Nicaragua or at military bases in the Panama Canal Zone and the United States — and...

   1978, Canadian Dimension - Volume 13, page 25

   Differing on the means, but with agreement established on the ends of opposition activity, both the subversion of public order as advocated by the insurrectionalists and the institutional conflict favored by the Frei camp continued to bring pressure on the armed forces to take sides.

   1989, Ricardo Israel Zipper, Politics and Ideology in Allende's Chile, page 256

2. alternativeAlternative form of insurrectionist.

   The Sawanans brought the insurrectionalists to trial.

   1970, Alexander Philip Lessin, Phyllis June Lessin, Village of the conquerors: Sawana: a Tongan village in Fiji

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   ...on October 5, 1795, the 13th Vendémiaire, an IV, the insurrectionalists were up and assembling bright and early ; but they found the rue Saint-Honoré guarded from the Place de la Révolution to the Palais-Royal, ...

   1929, Henry Dwight Sedgwick, France, page 309

   Few nations in the world endure such insecure frontiers, guarded as they mostly are by a ramshackle gangs of insurrectionalists feeding on narcotics and contraband, united only in their smouldering resentment of the government in Rangoon.

   1987, The Contemporary Review - Volume 251, page 233

3. A proponent of insurrectionalism

   For this reason the proletarians of our country have been so long divided in revolutionary syndicalists or insurrectionalists and reformists or evolutionarists.

   1910, International Federation of Trade Unions, International Report of the Trade Union Movement

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   Furthermore, it is rather artificial to try to make a clear distinction between 'putschists' and 'insurrectionalists' (the two tendencies were often merged together in individual leaders); the real line of demarcation should perhaps be drawn between those who saw the countryside as the proper theatre of the armed struggle, and those who attributed that role to the cities.

   1978, Régis Debray, A critique of arms - Volume 2, page 43

   It was introduced by the prosecutor, however, in evidence against the defendants at the Haymaket trial — in part because the police must have known that Most and Parsons had collaborated on the anarchists' "Pittsburgh Manifesto" at the convention of anti-authoritarian radicals that took place in that city following the Chicago meeting of anarchists, social revolutionaries, and other "free speech insurrectionalists."

   2006, Law and Literature - Volume 18, page 298

plural Insurrectionalists

1. A member of the insurrectional faction of the FSLN that defeated Anastasio Somoza García on 1979.

   While the Insurrectionalists did seek aid from various sectors, their reputation as moderates was an illusion.

   1988, Thomas P. Anderson, Politics in Central America, →ISBN

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   The Insurrectionalists faction, led by brothers Daniel and Humberto Ortega and Mexican-born Victor Tirado, gradually assumed international prominence as the group most capable of waging direct war against Somoza.

   1988, Joshua Muravchik, News Coverage of the Sandinista Revolution, →ISBN, page 31

   The GPP and the Insurrectionalists were particularly influenced by Sandino's nationalist and moral (not scientific) movement.

   1993, Greg Dawes, Aesthetics and Revolution: Nicaraguan Poetry, 1979-1990, →ISBN, page 191

   The situation changed in 1976 when a third distinct faction within the FSLN emerged, the Terceristas or Insurrectionalists.

   1996, Stephanie Linkogle, Gender, Practice, and Faith in Nicaragua

   Synonyms: Tercerista