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In addressing the persistent challenge of fully integrating individual dimensions and human<br />subjectivity within the cultural-historical activity theory, this paper suggests several steps to revise<br />its core onto-epistemology in an expansive approach termed the transformative activist stance.<br />This approach outlines the subtle dialectics of individual and collective planes of human praxis<br />whereby each individual is shaped by collective history and collaborative practices while at the<br />same time shaping and real-izing them through contributing to their collective, dynamic<br />materiality in moving beyond the status quo. In capitalizing on people always transcending what<br />exists in ‘the here and now,’ in a non-adaptive fashion, based in a commitment and vision to how<br />the world “ought to be,” the individual subjectivity is reclaimed as itself a fully social, embodied,<br />material-discursive process. Individual subjectivity and agency gain status through contributing to<br />changes in “collectividual” practices as the primary onto-epistemology of a unitary realm that is<br />individual and social/collective at the same time.