Oxford English and Spanish Dictionary, Synonyms, and Spanish to English Translator

Definition of autonomist in English:

‘Both autonomists and reformists also share the idea of an autonomous social movement.’

‘Many of the same debates go on, for example, between socialists who stress the role of the organised working class and autonomists who counterpose the actions of small minorities.’
‘The most fully developed version of this theory has been put forward by John Holloway, a British autonomist Marxist based in Mexico, in a book whose name sums up its content: ‘Change the World Without Taking Power’.’
‘His programme rightly rejects the idea, supported by many activists influenced by Green or autonomist approaches, that the answer is to trade and produce locally.’
‘There are important autonomist networks in many countries, but these ideas have a wider take up because of cynicism about the old left.’
‘The autonomists hold, essentially, that each individual or group should protest in their own way, without bowing down to any centralised, still less hierarchical, structure.’
‘Meanwhile the autonomists avoid developing any political or social vision in deference to the spontaneity of the movement.’
‘A breakaway union with significant support influenced by the politics of the autonomists.’
‘I thought it was a very interesting way of thinking about African American autonomist political activism.’