Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being immediate.
- noun In United States history, the principles of the immediatists.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Immediateness.
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- noun A
political philosophy embracing the virtues of immediatesocial interactions with people as a means of countering theantisocial consequences ofconsumerist capitalism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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These English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from
The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement George Spring Merriam 1878
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On the question of gradualism vs immediatism: would you push a button to elimnate food stamps tomorrow if ...
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On the question of gradualism vs immediatism: would you push a button to elimnate food stamps tomorrow if you knew 30 people would starve?
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This whole issue of immediatism vs gradualism is one I want to devote more time to thinking about.
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But I think that one of the important things about anarchism is that it gives you a way to combine ultra-immediatism with incrementalism — to work for total revolution to the extent that you can, but through means that allow you to get something of what you want, even if you fall short of that.
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All this strongly suggests that Sciabarra prefers a form of libertarian gradualism, and suspects that any form of immediatism depends on non-dialectical disregard for the cultural base necessary to sustain liberty.
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All this strongly suggests that Sciabarra prefers a form of libertarian gradualism, and suspects that any form of immediatism depends on non-dialectical disregard for the cultural base necessary to sustain liberty.
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On the question of gradualism vs immediatism: would you push a button to elimnate food stamps tomorrow if you knew 30 people would starve?
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His focus seemed to lean more towards immediatism than the invention of a new narrative or the reinvigoration of an old one.
Recap: The Rabbi, The Reverend & The Renegade | Jewschool 2004
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His focus seemed to lean more towards immediatism than the invention of a new narrative or the reinvigoration of an old one.
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