Definition of: syndicalism

(sin′di·kəl·iz′əm) noun
A social and political theory proposing the taking over of the means of production by syndicates of workers, preferably by means of the general strike, with consequent political control and the disappearance of the bourgeois state. [<F syndicalisme <syndical of a labor union <(chambre) syndicale a labor union <syndic a syndic]
—syn′di·cal·ist noun
—syn′di·cal·is′tic adjective