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syndicalist

Other forms: syndicalists

Definitions of syndicalist
  1. noun
    an advocate of anarchism
    synonyms: anarchist, nihilist
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    examples:
    Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
    Russian anarchist; ally and later opponent of Karl Marx (1814-1876)
    Emma Goldman
    United States anarchist (born in Russia) who opposed conscription; was deported to the Soviet Union in 1919 (1869-1940)
    Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin
    Russian anarchist (1842-1921)
    Nicola Sacco
    United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Bartolomeo Vanzetti was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1891-1927)
    Benjamin Ricketson Tucker
    United States anarchist influential before World War I (1854-1939)
    Bartolomeo Vanzetti
    United States anarchist (born in Italy) who with Nicola Sacco was convicted of murder and in spite of world-wide protest was executed (1888-1927)
    type of:
    radical
    a person who has radical ideas or opinions
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