direct actionist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From direct action + -ist.
Noun
[edit]direct actionist (plural direct actionists)
- (uncommon) Synonym of direct activist
- 1912, Voltairine de Cleyre, Direct Action:
- Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their cooperation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.
- 2009, David Graeber, Direct Action: An Ethnography, AK Press, →ISBN, page 203:
- The direct actionist does not just refuse to pay taxes to support a militarized school system, she combines with others to try to create a new school system that operates on different principles.