1887, D. Mackenzie Wallace, "Secret Societies in Russia", Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume XXVI, Number 4, October 1887, page 398:
Revolutionarity can exist only in the feelings of an individual man or in the periodical outbursts of the masses.
There is, likewise, no philosophy nor any major theoretical venture in history which, irrespective of its revolutionarity, is totally free of the authority of tradition.
1982, Socialist Thought and Practice, Volume 22, Issues 1-7, page 93:
In explaining this problem he clearly showed that the Bulgarian communists failed the test of standards of internationalism and revolutionarity on the question of the right of Macedonian people to self-determination.
If you do whatever the masses don't do or the minority does, you're just as mindless a conformist follower as they are. How revolutionary?! CRASS, M.D.C., and the Yippies are probably just suggesting a better lifestyle to be considered, not step-by-step instructions to revolutionarity.
Somewhat later, at the Tenth Congress, Tito in a similar way stressed that the revolutionarity of the working class is given in its being […]
1990, Jerrold Levinson, Music, Art, and Metaphysics: Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics, Oxford University Press (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
A similarly obvious distinction, but one whose nonobservance is the root of a certain class of problematic cases, is that between permanent and time-relative ways of taking certain art attributes, among them originality, provocativeness, revolutionarity.
Tršar stated for the media: "My aim was to present 'revolutionarity' of the Slovene nation in all its grandeur. […]
2009, Holger Heide, "The European Experience: The Millionfold Trauma of the Twentieth Century is Still Virulent", in Globalization and Regional Integration in Europe and Asia (ed. Nam-Kook Kim), →ISBN, page 75:
The problem lies much more in the fact that all these developments, including the resistance to them — and this independent of the degree of "militancy" — still take place within capital. This necessarily calls for a completely different revolutionarity.
