Meanings
plural direct actionists
- uncommonSynonym of direct activist.
The direct actionist does not just refuse to pay taxes to support a militarized school system, she combines with others to try to create a new school system that operates on different principles.
2009, David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography, AK Press, →ISBN, page 2031 more example
Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their cooperation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.
1912, Voltairine de Cleyre, Direct ActionSynonyms: direct activist
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of direct activist.
Origin
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