[mak-suh-muh-list] 
| a person who favors a radical and immediate approach to the achievement of a set of goals or the completion of a program. |
| max·i·mal·ist (māk'sə-mə-lĭst) n. One who advocates direct or radical action to secure a social or political goal in its entirety: "the maximalists . . . who want the undivided land" (Arthur Hertzberg). [Russian maksimalist, name applied in 1906 to an extreme splinter group of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party, ultimately from Latin maximum, maximum; see maximum.] max'i·mal·ist adj. |
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