Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An inherent or intrinsic power of acting or moving.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being self-active; self-action.
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Examples
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It will be, as a German peace activist once put it, "the spontaneous self-activity of the masses."
Robert Naiman: If Ron Paul Wins Iowa, Antiwar Democrats and Independents Likely to Provide Margin of Victory Robert Naiman 2011
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How can we materialize our self-activity as a revolutionary force and struggle for the self-determination of free and equal citizens in a just system of appropriation and distribution of social wealth?
A Review of Capitalists and Conquerors, and an exchange 2007
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The rhetoric is intermittently at a fever pitch or impenetrable, but the path to ratcheting things up turns out to be overgrown and still tangled; none of the questions raised is illuminated (I still want to know how to de-commodify my subjectivity, how to materialize my self-activity), and the rare attempts to actually undertake a Marxist analysis of U.S. or global society are disturbingly off.
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There is an enthusiastic devotion to certain principles of lofty theory in the abstract — principles of self-activity, self-control, intellectual and moral — and there is a school practice taking little heed of the official pedagogic creed.
Archive 2009-07-01 Bill Kerr 2009
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How can we make and remake our own nature within historically specific conventions of capitalist society such that we can make this self-activity a revolutionary force to dismantle capitalism itself and create the conditions for the development of our full human potential?
A Review of Capitalists and Conquerors, and an exchange 2007
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How can we make and remake our own nature within historically specific conventions of capitalist society such that we can make this self-activity a revolutionary force to dismantle capitalism itself and create the conditions for the development of our full human potential?
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If we're going to have 100 demonstrations and vigils in 100 cities on the day of the President's speech, there will have to be a significant contribution from what a German philosopher once called "the spontaneous self-activity of the masses."
Robert Naiman: A Hundred Cities Against Escalation As the President Announces It 2009
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How can we materialize our self-activity as a revolutionary force and struggle for the self-determination of free and equal citizens in a just system of appropriation and distribution of social wealth?
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It rejects the goal of taking state power and sets forth the objective of building a horizontal network of centers of self-activity.
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The rhetoric is intermittently at a fever pitch or impenetrable, but the path to ratcheting things up turns out to be overgrown and still tangled; none of the questions raised is illuminated (I still want to know how to de-commodify my subjectivity, how to materialize my self-activity), and the rare attempts to actually undertake a Marxist analysis of U.S. or global society are disturbingly off.
A Review of Capitalists and Conquerors, and an exchange 2007
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