manifestos
Public ideological statements
Manifestos are public declarations of principles, intentions, or policies.
The term often applies to political or artistic statements laying out a group's beliefs and goals: The Communist Manifesto, the Futurist manifesto.
A manifesto announces what someone stands for and intends to do, typically with urgency or defiance.
The singular is manifesto.
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
- overthrowForcible removal from power
guerrilla · subversion · insurgency · mutiny · barricades · proletariat · bourgeoisie · Marxism
Established body of teachings
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- tenetsFoundational beliefs of doctrine
creed · worldview · convictions · ethos · canon · theism · atheism · materialism
Unbound topical booklet
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
- petitionFormal written appeal
boycott · demonstration · rally · march · grassroots · lobbying · picketing · sit-in
Thorough change in form
- progressMovement toward improvement
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- innovationCreating something original
- transitionChange from one state
overhaul · restructuring · amendment · renewal · revision · modernization · emancipation · suffrage
insurrection
Violent uprising against authority
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- coupAbrupt seizure of power
overthrow · guerrilla · subversion · insurgency · mutiny · barricades · proletariat · bourgeoisie · Marxism · Leninism
doctrine
Established body of teachings
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
tenets · creed · worldview · convictions · ethos · canon · theism · atheism · materialism · idealism
pamphlet
Unbound topical booklet
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- advocacyPleading for a cause
- campaignOrganized effort toward goal
petition · boycott · demonstration · rally · march · grassroots · lobbying · picketing · sit-in · civil disobedience
transformation
Thorough change in form
- progressMovement toward improvement
- evolutionSpecies changing over generations
- innovationCreating something original
transition · overhaul · restructuring · amendment · renewal · revision · modernization · emancipation · suffrage · abolition
proclamation
Formal public announcement
- pronouncementFormal authoritative statement
- statementExpressed claim or fact
- platformRaised flat structure
treatise · polemic · screed · broadsheet · tract · credo · preamble · thesis · charter · decree
- Colonial Americanacolonial laws, almanacs, Benjamin Franklin, William Bradford, Thomas Paine
- reform movementsabolitionism, muckraking, labor reform, child labor reform, prison reform
- FuturismsFuturism, Afrofuturism, retro-futurism, dynamism, simultaneity
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- written worksessay, novel, anthologies, history books, letter
manifestosprivate musings
diary entries · journals · personal reflections · private thoughts · confessions
manifestosposition papers
Written advocacy statements
- The Communist ManifestoSocialist political program document
- Communist Manifesto1848 anticapitalist political pamphlet
- art manifestoStatement declaring creative principles
- party manifestoPolitical group's stated aims
- political manifestosFormal statements of beliefs
- physical manifestation