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activism|ˈæktɪvɪz(ə)m|
[f. active a. + -ism.]
l. A philosophical theory which assumes the objective reality and active existence of everything.
1907W. R. B. Gibson Eucken's Philos. of Life (ed. 2) App. 170 Activism has affinities with Pragmatism, especially on its negative side. 1920H. L. Eno Activism x. 176 Activism is..essentially realistic. It assumes the ‘objective’ validity and ‘real’ being of entities and relations, as well as the fundamental relational complexes of space, time, number, and change.
2. A doctrine or policy of advocating energetic action.
1920Glasgow Herald 12 Aug. 7 It is a question of repelling the fateful activism of the Entente just as it was necessary in 1916 to stand against German activism. 1933V. A. Demant God, Man & Society iii. 93 The major conflict in modern society between technique to save effort, and the moral philosophy of economic ‘activism’ which is embodied in economic theory and practice. 1960Spectator 19 Aug. 272 The sizzling flame of activism is visible in both the agricultural and pastoral districts.
Hence activist |ˈæktɪvɪst|, an advocate of activism in either sense; also attrib. (passing into a.) = actiˈvistic a.
1907W. R. B. Gibson Eucken's Philos. of Life (ed. 2) App. 170 Eucken deliberately adopts the activistic label as a distinctive philosophical badge. 1909Athenæum 17 Apr. 469/3 Pragmatism..is tainted with the characteristic activist fallacy of making process as active account for the structural form of process which it implies. 1913E. Underhill Mystic Way 31 The positive and activistic mysticism of the West. 1915Times 7 Aug. 7/6 For some, neutrality simply means a passive aloofness. For others, neutrality should be active, and these are divided, in the current jargon, with active and passive ‘activists’. 1949Theology LII. 363 American Christianity has tended traditionally to express itself in an activist form. 1954Koestler Invisible Writing 206 He was not a politician but a propagandist, not a ‘theoretician’ but an ‘activist’. |