Definition of "vanguardist" []

• A proponent of vanguardism. (noun)

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• "And he led what was called the vanguardist movement, developing small cadres that would work inside of other organizations."
• "But, in an operative sense, there's no reason to think that American unions today can be creative, vanguardist thinkers about workplace organization than there was to think that the Egyptian opposition could sit down in good faith and talk with Mubarak prior to the dramatic events of the last several weeks."
• "Picking up on my thoughts about humor, it is the exposed, self-ridiculing and self-undermining character of these forms of protest that I find most compelling as opposed to the pious humorlessness of most forms of vanguardist active nihilism and some forms of contemporary protest I name no names."