anti-elite

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1. alternativeAlternative form of antielite.

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   The Zapatista revolt is an example of an anti-elite rebellion exacerbated by the growing wealth-poverty divide, and the Gulf War was essentially a resource war, fought over the control of Persion Gulf oil between an autocratic leader with regional ambitions and a powerful coalition of oilimporting states.

   2007, Paul Rogers, Global Security and the War on Terror, →ISBN

plural anti-elites

1. alternativeAlternative form of antielite.

   Communism played an analogous role in the formation of the anti-elites of the 1920s, which subsequently became the transforming force of the Liberal Party in the 1930s and 1940s.

   2016, Eric Hobsbawm, Viva la Revolucion: Hobsbawm on Latin America, →ISBN