criminal syndicalism

American  

noun

Law.

1. the doctrine of recourse to acts of violence or terrorism, or the advocacy of such acts, as a means of effecting economic or political change: proscribed by statute in many U.S. states.

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Example Sentences

Harris even though in 1969 the Supreme Court declared criminal syndicalism laws unconstitutional.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2019

Another is Don West, six-foot radical poet released fortnight ago from the death cell in Pineville, Ky. jail where he had been held on a charge of criminal syndicalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

A state law against criminal syndicalism included a ban on counseling an unlawful method to accomplish a political end; this, said the court, violated the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee.

From Time Magazine Archive

ECA's Foster, L'Aube went on blithely, became a convert to communism after the Russian Revolution, was a defendant on "criminal syndicalism" charges in 1923, a candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1924, 1928 and 1932.

From Time Magazine Archive

The criminal syndicalism law registers the high water mark of reaction.

From The Centralia Conspiracy by Chaplin, Ralph