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radicalism (historical)
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Radicalism (historical)
The term "
Radical
" (from the
Latin
radix
meaning root) during the late 18th-century identified proponents of the
Radical Movement
. Historically, Radicalism began in the
United Kingdom
with political support for a "radical reform" of the
electoral system
to widen
the franchise
. Some
radicals
sought
republicanism
, abolition of titles, redistribution of
property
and
freedom of the press
. In
France in the nineteenth century
, the
Republican, Radical and Radical-Socialist Party
, initially identifying itself as a
far-left
party opposed to more
right-wing
parties (such as the
Orléanists
, the
Legitimists
and the
Bonapartists
), eventually became the most important party of the
Third Republic
(1871–1940). As historical
Radicalism
became absorbed in the development of
political liberalism
, in the later 19th century in both the United Kingdom and in continental
Europe
the term "Radical" came to denote a
progressive
liberal ideology.
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