solidarist, n. (and a.)
(ˈsɒlɪdərɪst)
[f. solidarity + -ist.]
A believer in or advocate of solidarism. Also attrib. or as adj. Hence solidaˈristic a.
| 1884 C. Power Philistia I. i. 4 The polyglot crowd of democratic solidarists. 1957 [see personalism b]. 1968 Economist 28 Dec. 27/3 Further evidence of an ‘instrumental collectivism’ as opposed to a traditional ‘solidaristic collectivism’. 1969 P. Worsley in Ionescu & Gellner Populism 224 These independent commodity-producers..were not simply ‘petty-bourgeois’ individualists, as..their solidarist political associations demonstrate. 1974 B. Jessop Traditionalism, Conservatism & Brit. Pol. Culture ii. 32 The distinctive attribute of secular voters is an absence of solidaristic class consciousness rather than commitment to deferential norms. |