antipolitics

alternative anti-politics

1. countableuncountableBroad rejection of political institutions and processes.

   a boisterous antipolitics in which everyone rails against "usurpers in Washington"

   2008, Peter Alexander Meyers, Civic war and the corruption of the citizen, page 141

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   the politics (perhaps we should say the anti-politics) of those who desired no compulsory civil government at all

   1853, William Goodell, Slavery and Anti-slavery, page 518

2. countableuncountablePolitical activity based on moral or intellectual stature rather than force.

   Antipolitics is a form of intellectual resistance[…]

   2000, Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, Martha Lampland, Altering States

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   Antipolitics means refusing to consider nuclear war a satisfactory answer in any way.

   1984, George Konrad, Antipolitics: An Essay

3. countableuncountableAn ideology that prefers centralized and arbitrary rule to democratic government

   The perfection of antipolitics required nonpolitical leadership and the negation of partisan strife.

   1978, Brian Loveman; Thomas M. Davies, Jr., The Politics of Antipolitics

4. countableuncountableAvoidance of political debates and controversies.