maximalist

maximalist
/mak"seuh meuh list/, n.
a person who favors a radical and immediate approach to the achievement of a set of goals or the completion of a program.
[ < Russ maksimalíst, coinage orig. applied in 1906 to an extreme splinter group of the Russian Socialist-Revolutionary party; see MAXIMAL, -IST]

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