pseudorevolutionary
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom pseudo- + revolutionary.
Adjective
editpseudorevolutionary (comparative more pseudorevolutionary, superlative most pseudorevolutionary)
- Having the appearance, but not the essence, of a revolutionary.
Noun
editpseudorevolutionary (plural pseudorevolutionaries)
- One who has the appearance, but not the essence, of a revolutionary.
- 1969, Leo Huberman, Paul Marlor Sweezy, chapter 11, in Socialism in Cuba, Monthly Review Press, page 211:
- The microfaction came to coincide with arguments used and positions adopted against our Revolution by Latin American pseudorevolutionaries and the United States Central Intelligence Agency.