radicalization

plural radicalizations · alternative radicalisation

1. countableuncountableThe process of radicalizing.

   From there, it was only a short step to “Kekism,” at once a joke religion and a precursor of the reactionary radicalization to follow.

   2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page

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   This remark, it is true, belongs to a time when Engels was himself connected with the Young Hegelians […] nevertheless, it is typical of the hopes that were cherished in the early stages for a radicalization of the master's system.

   1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83

   One way to see the radicalization of the likes of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly is that they are adopting Fuentes-Lite positions on issues like immigration and vaccines.

   2025 November 1, Richard Hanania, “It’s the Groypers’ America now We’re just living in it”, in UnHerd, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2025