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Alongside colleague Dimitris Glinos, she had declared '... that language ... and the entire education system can only change in the context of a social transformation, in a socialist society' (excerpt of the 'progressive' demoticist pledge of 1927, in Kalantzis, 1985: 109).

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The speeches and writings of the president, Avra Theodoropoulou, echoed the theory of history and society of her close colleague and prominent demoticist, Dimitris Glinos.

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But this melting pot of multiple allegiances which the demotic movement accommodated — socialist, demoticist, and feminist — was short lived.

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Note 14: Prominent educationalist and demoticist, and one of EAM's intellectual architects, Dimitris Glinos, spoke of '... the formation of a provisional government after liberation, which would provide for the election of a constitutional assembly based on popular sovereignty; and the affirmation of the right of the nation to decide its form of government; of EAM to halt any reactionary attempt to impose a government contrary to the will of the people' (Glinos, 1944). back

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21Indeed Glinos's open embrace of communism led to the collapse of the Educational Society in 1927, the first significant event to threaten the coherence of the demoticist movement.

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