subversiveness

subversive | American Dictionary

subversive
adjective
us/səbˈvɜr·sɪv/
tending to weaken or destroy an established political system, organization, or authority:
The FBI had the duty of obtaining evidence of subversive activity.

subvert

verb[ T ]us/səbˈvɜrt/
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The book describes the techniques that Hitler used to subvert democracy in the Weimar Republic.

Examples of subversive

subversive
Such an analysis was more subversive in thinkers who ventured to apply it to the internal structure of the state.
Only statements and conversations considered to be subversive or dangerous attracted the attention of those in authority and came to be recorded via judicial processes.
This suppression of subjectivity endows her book with a subversive, and to my mind, propagandistic authority.
Composers often look for ways to use these programs in a more creative manner, sometimes subversive to their original design.
But how subversive are these alternative actions, since they work within the cosmological realm of nationalism?
By contrast, modernism was subversive, contra, critical and oppositional.
The government and local authorities cracked down on street singers and ballad singers singing and selling potentially subversive material.
While the theatre was to be the bastion of progress, traditional popular festivities such as carnival with its subversive potential for social inversion, were curbed.
To demand such luxury for every believer was always looked upon as subversive by the authorities.
On the one hand, it belongs to the genre of the comic tale with socially subversive elements.
A textual reading, however, will not sustain anything like a clear and satisfying allegory on either side, patriotic or subversive.
Not only did print make these areas of life more public, it disseminated different experiences of adultery and was therefore subversive of the moral consensus.
Against the subversive function of memory, one must counterpose its consolation.
With the coming of democratic processes and the struggle for a multi-party system, theatre lost its leading role in politically subversive activity.
For better or for worse, historians have to be more critical, or even subversive, in de-constructing this deeply-entrenched acceptance.
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