Concept
Radical politics
Overview
Radical politics denotes the intent to transform or replace the fundamental principles of a society or political system, often through social change, structural change, revolution or radical reform. The process of adopting radical views is termed radicalisation.
The word radical derives from the Latin radix ("root") and Late Latin radicalis ("of or pertaining to the root, radical"). Historically, political use of the term referred exclusively to a form of progressive electoral reformism, known as Radicalism, that had developed in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. However, the denotation has changed since its 18th century coinage to comprehend the entire political spectrum, though retaining the connotation of "change at the root".
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But, after the complete failure of my hopes of putting a new life into Radical politics by means of the _Review_, I am glad to look back on these two instances of success in an honest attempt to do mediate service to things and persons that deserved it. After the last hope of the formation of a Radical party had disappeared, it was time for me to stop the heavy expenditure of time and money which the _Review_ cost…
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
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Proletarian revolutions, on the contrary, such as those of the nineteenth century, criticize themselves constantly; constantly interrupt themselves in their own course; come back to what seems to have been accomplished, in order to start over anew; scorn with cruel thoroughness the half measures, weaknesses and meannesses of their first attempts; seem to throw down their adversary only in order to enable him to draw…
Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
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They appeared as immediate forerunners of the famous Report of the Bullion Committee of 1810, in which Ricardo’s views were adopted.[133] The singular circumstance, that Ricardo and his adherents, who held money to be merely a token of value, are called bullionists, is due not only to the name of that committee, but also to the nature of their theory. In his work on political economy, Ricardo repeated and developed…
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
States what Radical politics is; the author is tied to Radical politics in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Radical politics
Related ideas
- Vladimir Lenin
- Joseph Stalin
- Latin
- Marxism
- Mao Zedong
- Margaret Thatcher
- Classical radicalism
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Political spectrum
- Pejorative
- Ronald Reagan
- Palingenesis
- Republicanism
- Revolution
- Ruhollah Khomeini
- Progressivism
- Adolf Hitler
- Social change
- Reform
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Society
- Extremism
- Anti-capitalism
- Napoleonic Wars
Place in the tradition
Part of Anarchism.