Re: delete knows that when the place is full of right-wing extremists, any moderate, rational, and logical assessments from the centre will appear as a militant left wing agenda. ...'sides, how can you be a militant without any guns?
The word militant has come to refer to any individual or party engaged in aggressive physical or
verbal combat, normally for a cause. Journalists often use militant as a neutral term for soldiers who do not belong to an established military. Typically, a militant engages in violence as part of a claimed struggle for achievement of a political goal.
Popular usage sometimes sees "militants" as synonymous with terrorists, though perhaps characterised with a slightly less loaded term. The term "militant state" colloquially refers to a state which holds an aggressive posture in support of an ideology or cause. In French the term "militant" retains a more moderate meaning of "activist" which it formerly had in English.