Abolitionism is a way of thinking about the world that then gives us the ability to see what people already do and figure out how to make more of that happen. But i ues thire's a kind of a historical irony of sorts, because anguage that most people on the left take as the source of their vocabulary to talk about revolution was not just forged at the time when abolitionism,. calling itself abolitionism., was so critical rigt to scholar activists of the mid nineteenth century.