Blanquismn.

1922 R. W. Postgate Out of Past 7 Very attentive students of modern revolutionary literature may have noticed recently a few references—generally ill-informed—to ‘Blanquism’.

1949 I. Deutscher Stalin iii. 55 To the Menshevists this sounded like an ominous repetition of Blanquism, the doctrine of the leader of the Paris Commune, who believed that the only method of achieving revolution was direct action by a small conspiratorial minority ignoring the will of the majority.

1950 E. H. Carr Bolshevik Revol. I. i. 18 ‘Blanquism’ in nineteenth-century revolutionary parlance meant addiction to the isolated revolutionary conspiracy or putsch and neglect of methodical organization.

1879 Nation 15 May 333/2 There was, last Sunday, another trial of electoral strength, out of which the Blanquists emerged the victors.

1922 R. W. Postgate Out of Past 67 The independent history of the Blanquist Party begins with the fall of the Paris Commune... Almost immediately after the Commune's fall and the scattering of the Blanquists, questions of policy arose.