syndicalism
Americannoun
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a form or development of trade unionism, originating in France, that aims at the possession of the means of production and distribution, and ultimately at the control of society, by federated bodies of industrial workers, and that seeks to realize its purposes through general strikes, terrorism, sabotage, etc.
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an economic system in which workers own and manage industry.
noun
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a revolutionary movement and theory advocating the seizure of the means of production and distribution by syndicates of workers through direct action, esp a general strike
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an economic system resulting from such action
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Etymology
Origin of syndicalism
From the French word syndicalisme, dating back to 1905–10. See syndical, -ism
Example Sentences
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Harris even though in 1969 the Supreme Court declared criminal syndicalism laws unconstitutional.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2019
Albiñana early adopted more than a few of the trappings of fascism, stressing imperial expansion on the one hand and a broad, economically reformist state syndicalism on the other.
From Slate ● Feb. 7, 2017
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
Last week he was also indicted in Kentucky, along with Author John Dos Passes, for criminal syndicalism because of his outspoken sympathy for the miners' cause.
From Time Magazine Archive
Owen, Robert, 130;utopian socialism of, 144; in the Webbs' critique of, the economic fallacies of syndicalism are revealed, 260-261.
From Violence and the Labor Movement by Robert Hunter
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