counterpowers

Noun

counterpower (plural counterpowers)

1. A political or other kind of power capable of challenging and potentially removing the power of another.
   • In the hands of the few power can be called oppression, repression, exploitation or authoritarianism. Meanwhile movements for freedom, emancipation, liberation, human rights and democracy have a common idea at their heart. That idea is Counterpower.2011, Tim Gee, Counterpower, page 17