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long march through the institutions

long march through the institutions noun: the strategy of reforming society by becoming part of the institutions that control it.

Noun

long march through the institutions

  1. The strategy of reforming society by becoming part of the institutions that control it.
    • But my concern—not a deeply held conviction, but a fear I can’t stop returning to—is that the left’s long march through the institutions has run into a dead end.Fall 2021, Michael Kazin and Timothy Shenk, “Was the Long March a Dead End? An Exchange on Radicals and the University”, in Dissent

Origin of long march through the institutions

Calque of German der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen, coined by German activist Rudi Dutschke in 1967.

Questions about long march through the institutions

What does long march through the institutions mean?
Long march through the institutions means the strategy of reforming society by becoming part of the institutions that control it.
What part of speech is long march through the institutions?
Long march through the institutions is a noun.

Words near long march through the institutions in the dictionary

  1. long longs
  2. long lost
  3. long maize
  4. Long Man
  5. Long March
  6. long march through the institutions
  7. Long Marston
  8. Long Marton
  9. long measure
  10. Long Melford
  11. long memories

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