mutualist
8.6
A person who supports people owning and sharing resources together
- noun
- /ˈmjuːtʃuəlɪst/
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mutualista
- From my position, as a mutualist somewhere "to the left" of left-libertarianism, my immediate thought is that perhaps one of the problems is that left-libs have, so far at least, identified "vulgar libertarianism" too narrowly, in part because they haven't entirely escaped it.
Examples
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In a coevolutionary context, positive feedback can lead to greater strength of mutualism and potentially to coadaptation of mutualist partners (Bever 1999).
Academic text (2006) -
As a committed mutualist, she believes in the importance of cooperative ownership in communities.
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The mutualist philosophy promotes sharing resources and helping each other in times of need.
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Activists who identify as mutualists often organize community events to encourage local support and cooperation.
Antonyms
How Supportive
mutualist
8.6
to champion
64
4.2
64
4.2
advocate
282
4.1
282
4.1
activist
6
3.7
6
3.7
supporter
817
1.0
817
1.0
sympathizer
37
4.8
37
4.8
Surface Forms
mutualist singular
mutualists plural
Morphology
Etymology
Mutualist joins mutual ('shared') with the ending -ist (like in artist), which marks a person who believes in or practices something. So a mutualist is someone who supports sharing, cooperation, or the idea that people should help each other.