ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains about the activism that took many forms, from wave upon wave of labor strikes, to Progressives' pleas for legislators to protect women and children, to anarchist violence in opposition to capitalism. 'Print activism' is a term refers to print media's role in social and political activism throughout the long twentieth century. In the early twenty-first century, the "Arab spring", notable for its use of social media, and a national Occupy movement, which similarly depended upon networked media to communicate central information? In addition to the American pragmatists, the contemporaneous German philosopher Rudolf Eucken developed a theory of "activism" in fact, the Oxford English Dictionary cites Eucken as the first person to coin the term, defining his philosophy as "the theory or belief that truth is arrived at through action or active striving after the spiritual life".
