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long march through the institutions en · NOUN

Etymology

Calque of German der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen, coined by German activist Rudi Dutschke in 1967.

Meanings

  1. The strategy of reforming society by becoming part of the institutions that control it.
    • But my concern—not a deeply held conviction, but a fear I can’t stop returning to—is that the left’s long march through the institutions has run into a dead end. Fall 2021, Michael Kazin and Timothy Shenk, “Was the Long March a Dead End? An Exchange on Radicals and the University”, in Dissent: