insurrectionalism

English

Etymology

insurrectional +‎ -ism

Noun

insurrectionalism (uncountable)

1. The belief that insurrection is the best way to achieve a communist or socialist revolution.
   • 1986, United States. Dept. of the Air Force, Air University review - Volume 37, Issue 5, page 83:

     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.

   • 1986, Kathryn Ellen Amdur, Syndicalist Legacy:

     Those already wary of the party's electoral maneuvers in 1919 further resented the Socialists' calls, after the May 1920 strike failure, to abandon revolutionary insurrectionalism and place all hopes in "le bulletin rouge".

   • 1987, Our Generation - Volumes 16-18, page 6:

     In these situations and others, class-based insurrectionalism, led by vanguard political parties, has been shunned.

   • 1988, Richard H. Shultz, The Soviet Union and revolutionary warfare, →ISBN, page 154:

     The third faction — the TI — sought to steer a middle course between the GPP-TP debate using the strategic concept of insurrectionalism, which asserted that before a Marxist-Leninist state could be established the revolution had to pass through a democratic-popular stage.

2. A branch within the anarchist movement that eschews formal organizations such as political parties or labor unions and emphasizes insurrection.
   • 2009, Maurizio Antonioli, Nestor McNab, The International Anarchist Congress: Amsterdam 1907, page 19:

     Some saw in the Malatesta-Monatte clash nothing but the re-emergence of traditional insurrectionalism over the general strike.

   • 2010, Juan Suriano, Paradoxes of Utopia, →ISBN:

     Consciously or not, most local anarchists embraced the Bakuninist view, which had an innate affinity to the revolutionary urgency and insurrectionalism so pervasive in the movement.

   • 2014, Bart van der Steen, The City Is Ours, →ISBN:

     Thus, the tactics of insurrectionalism had reached their limits.

   • 2015, Federico Luisetti, John Pickles, Wilson Kaiser, The Anomie of the Earth, →ISBN:

     Again, I would insist that this is not to explain that insurrectionalism as a mere “expression” of theory, or as derivative from theory, but rather to suggest a convergence in conceptual structure.