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- noun politics The
strategy whereby anorganization (usually a vanguard party) attempts to place itself at the centre of arevolutionary movement and steer it in a direction consistent with itsideology .
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Examples
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Bakunin's "vanguardism" along with that of the Magon Brothers, has been seen by many, if not most, anarchists as an abberation - an "unanarchist" aspect of these otherwise great anarchists.
Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends 2010
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Of course, if we are talking about the real essensce of "vanguardism," focusing of
Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist Martin Wisse 2008
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Of course, if we are talking about the real essensce of "vanguardism," focusing of
Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist Angelus Novus 2008
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Significantly, the PT defined itself as a radical leftist party but squarely rejected the Leninism and vanguardism of the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Jeffrey W. Rubin: The Roots of Brazil's Success Jeffrey W. Rubin 2010
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Significantly, the PT defined itself as a radical leftist party but squarely rejected the Leninism and vanguardism of the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Jeffrey W. Rubin: The Roots of Brazil's Success Jeffrey W. Rubin 2010
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Significantly, the PT defined itself as a radical leftist party but squarely rejected the Leninism and vanguardism of the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Jeffrey W. Rubin: The Roots of Brazil's Success Jeffrey W. Rubin 2010
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Some on the left, including friends of mine, seem to suffer from undisguised vanguardism and want the Movement to raise the red flag right away, despite all the anarchists, libertarians and Democrats among them.
Danny Schechter: What Is the OWS Agenda? Danny Schechter 2011
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By way of a new practice of storytelling to try and demonstrate the fallacy of these oppositions, together with others such as the one between commitment and vanguardism, such would finally have been the ambitious project made possible by the idea of plagiarism—all this, it seems, without having to exceed the limits of the literary itself, with everything this notion promises or threatens to convey.
swoonrocket jms 2009
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I wanted to hear a denunciation of vanguardism, but that wasn't explicitly forthcoming.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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I wanted to hear a denunciation of vanguardism, but that wasn't explicitly forthcoming.
Old Home Day 2008
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