Definition of "prefigurative" []

• Showing by prefiguration. (adjective)

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• "In doing so, we are following a process known as prefigurative politics - or as Obama supporters might say, we are seeking to "be the change" that we envision for the world."
• "In other words, if such concepts were practiced by businesses or housing co-ops or communes, I think this is effective in the sense that individuals are creating the social relationships they want to see in the new world, one example of many what might be called prefigurative politics."
• "For revolutionary syndicalists, the development of a mass workers movement where the organizations and struggles are "self-managed" by the workers themselves is "prefigurative" of a society self-managed by the working class."