platformist
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- noun
- /ˈplæt.fɔːr.mɪst/
- Jargon
- A dedicated platformist believes in the importance of organized anarchist groups to promote their ideals.
Examples
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I am a fan of Max Stirner and Emile Armand, who prefer communization theories to the supposedly anarchist platformist theories.
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For example, the contemporary guru of platformists, Wayne Price, has been publishing articles called "Marxism for anarchists."
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The anarchists that are afraid of Stirner are mostly the platformists who I, as well as many others, tend to include in the Marxist sector.
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It would also be more worthwhile to try to communicate to people that they had already participated, even lived in many cases, in an Anarcho-platformist environment.
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So you're a moralist and define mental illness as a flaw rather than an induced social condition; therefore, you despise all anarchists, which makes you an individualist platformist; in other words, a wingnut!
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Calls them "Temporary Autonomous Zones," "Periodical Autonomous Zones," and "Permanent Autonomous Zones" instead of with quasi-Leninist platformist groups or worse with Marxist-Leninism and Marxist, social democrat, or liberal parliamentarism.
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Many platformists argue that unity among anarchist factions is essential for effective activism.
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The workshop brought together various platformists to discuss strategies for enhancing cooperation among anarchist communities.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Platformist comes from platform ('a raised stage' or 'a list of ideas') and the ending -ist ('one who supports'). So a platformist is someone who supports a political 'platform' — in this case the idea that anarchists should work together in organized, united groups.