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Recent Examples of counterrevolution
These choices take command of the struggle against any possible counterrevolution.
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Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
The Thatcher-Reagan neoliberal counterrevolution combined with reactionary populist anti-intellectualism to seemingly seal the ivory tower’s fate—and to attack universities as bastions of campus revolt and as alternative centers of civil society.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025
The phenomenal success of this counterrevolution was due to a simple insight.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
What is still missing from this broad narrative is a full understanding of how this neoliberal counterrevolution succeeded in changing everything.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2025
The Thatcher-Reagan neoliberal counterrevolution combined with reactionary populist anti-intellectualism to seemingly seal the ivory tower’s fate—and to attack universities as bastions of campus revolt and as alternative centers of civil society.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025
The phenomenal success of this counterrevolution was due to a simple insight.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
What is still missing from this broad narrative is a full understanding of how this neoliberal counterrevolution succeeded in changing everything.
—Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 20 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for counterrevolution
counterinsurgency
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In Maryland and Washington, D.C., the ongoing liberalization of sports-betting law is confronting a counterinsurgency.—
David B. McGarry,
Baltimore Sun,
21 Apr. 2025
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Because civil wars and counterinsurgency operations are fought in and among populations, civilians bear the brunt of the harm from these wars, not only by being caught up in deliberate sectarian violence or crossfire but also because they are forced to flee their homes.—
Lawrence D. Freedman,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Apr. 2025
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“Counterrevolution.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/counterrevolution. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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