A person who believes in or advocates for cooperation, especially as a political or economic principle.
From 'cooperation' + '-ist' (suffix meaning a person who practices or advocates something). This combines the noun 'cooperation' with the agent suffix '-ist,' creating a term for ideological believers in cooperation.
Cooperationists were important figures in 19th-century labor and political movements—they believed that workers could solve economic problems through mutual cooperation rather than class warfare. The term reveals how political ideologies attach themselves to everyday words.
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