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adj. - Indistinctly prophetic.

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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...
  • For revolutionary syndicalists, the development of a mass workers movement where the organizations and struggles are "self-managed" by the workers themselves is...
  • She, that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching...
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