anarcho-syndicalism
(æˌnɑːkəʊ ˈsɪndɪkəlɪz(ə)m)
[comb. form. of anarchy + syndicalism.]
= syndicalism. So aˌnarcho-ˈsyndicalist n., = syndicalist; also as adj.
| [1913 J. A. Estey Revolutionary Syndicalism i. 31 Jaurès..was throwing them back into Anarchist-Syndicalism.] 1934 in Webster. 1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. i. ii. 49 The party and Trades Union of the Anarchists and Anarcho-syndicalists. 1938 Ann. Reg. 1937 241 Anarcho⁓syndicalist opposition was forced underground. 1940 H. Read Philos. Anarchism iv. 28 Whatever may be the merits and demerits of the anarcho-syndicalist system, it can and does work. 1949 J. S. Schapiro Liberalism xiv. 362 Proudhon has been exalted as the father of anarchosyndicalism. 1955 H. Hodgkinson Doubletalk 12 Anarcho-syndicalism, or direct action by anarchist factory workers, is equally anathema. Ibid., The anarcho-syndicalists carry their treacherous activities under the banner of the ‘protection of the rights of the individual and his free development’. |