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autonomist

autonomist

1 8.4
Supporting self-government for a region
  • adjective
  • /ɔːˈtɒnəmɪst/
translation icon : autonomista
  • Verdi15 was occupied by a number of Autonomist militants (generally organizations with Marxist-Leninist backgrounds, based in many squats around Italy), in addition to foreign students who had stopped receiving grants to study or no longer had a place in an EDISU residence hall.

Examples

  • I worked with comrades that translated texts from German, including communiques and discussion papers, with the hope of spreading Autonomist ideas and methods throughout North America.

    Blog text (4)
  • The black bloc may be one of the more obvious examples, but there are many other lessons to be drawn from the W. German Autonomist movement.

    Blog text (4)
  • Book Review: Fire and Flames: A History of the German Autonomist Movement

    Blog text (4)
  • Originally published in Germany in 1990, Fire and Flames is now considered a classic history of the Autonomist movement up to that time.

    Blog text (4)
  • How do you handle autonomist profits or autonomy of operations in these other areas?

    Academic text (1990)
  • SCISSION represents an autonomist Marxist viewpoint.

    Blog text (32)
  • In 1985, everyone expected that the first change in the unified internal market would come in companies like 3M that have eleven plants or eleven autonomist subsidiaries in the twelve countries that would be able to confine their production to three or four plants to serve all of Europe.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Popular resentment against the central government has grown in magnitude over recent years, driving the revival of the type of separatist and autonomist tendencies that pushed the country into civil war following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

    Blog text (27)
  • As easy as it is to criticize capitalism, the only successful alternatives I’ve seen (neither of which Dean mentions) are the Mondragon Corporation in Spain and the various Autonomist movements throughout the world.

    Blog text (3)
  • The policymakers developed an autonomist approach to give local communities greater control over their resources.

Synonyms

Antifederalist
vsautonomist
1 9.4

Against giving power from local or state governments to a strong central government

supports local self-government and active self-management rather than only opposing central control
decentralist
vsautonomist
7.3

A person who wants power moved from a central government to local governments

promotes self-government for groups or regions rather than systemwide redistribution

Antonyms

7 6.3

The act of putting control and decisions under one main office

How Supportive

zealous
18 6.8
autonomist
1 8.4
supportive
348 2.8
favorable
  • US
62 2.8
sympathetic
152 3.4
indifferent
10 3.7

Surface Forms

autonomist positive

Morphology

autonomist = autonomy (transparent) = autonomy + ist

Formed by the noun 'autonomy' plus the productive agentive suffix '-ist', meaning someone who supports or advocates autonomy.

Etymology

Autonomist comes from auto- 'self', as in automatic, and the Greek root nomos 'rule', so it describes ideas or policies that push for 'self-rule' and more local control.