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  • adjective Opposing the people.

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Examples

  • The cynicism of H. L. Mencken is a good example of the antipopular elitism that has come to characterize both the elite media and the academic world.

    LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010

  • The cynicism of H. L. Mencken is a good example of the antipopular elitism that has come to characterize both the elite media and the academic world.

    LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010

  • The ultrareactionary makeup of the present U.S. administration has meant support for the most repressive, antipopular and antiworker regimes in the world.

    10TH WFTU CONGRESS 1982

  • Mr Reagan's administration has been characterized from the start by its antipopular and antilabor attitude.

    10TH WFTU CONGRESS 1982

  • The IMF, taking advantage of the difficult position of petroleum-importing underdeveloped countries which are currently overburdened by growing deficits in their balance of payments and by an overwhelming foreign debt, is imposing on these countries, among other things, abusive conditional clauses aimed at promoting the most reactionary and antipopular internal policies and at turning these countries into easier victims of imperialist dependence and exploitation.

    CASTRO READS MAIN REPORT AT PCC CONGRESS 1980

  • Progressive governments which are carrying out a noble effort to achieve development and freedom for their countries are crushed and, at times, apparently even overwhelmed by the economic difficulties and the one-sided and antipopular conditions imposed by international loan organization.

    SIXTH SUMMIT CONFERENCE OF THE NONALINED COUNTRI 1979

  • They will not only view as a relative gain over the capitalists measures which are primarily aimed at advancing capitalist interests, but they will inevitably be ready at a price to relax to some extent the intensity of their opposition to other measures that are capitalistic and antipopular.

    Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling

  • Andokides was thought to be a man of aristocratic and antipopular sentiments, and what made him particularly suspected of having taken part in the statue-breaking, was that the large statue of

    Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839

  • Communist Party of Greece (KKE) spokesman Nikos Karathanasopoulos said that "when we have antipopular and undemocratic measures in essence we shall have antipopular and undemocratic attitudes."

    Greek News 2010

  • "All this," Fidel Castro said, "represents the processes of tremendous historical and political importance which are considerably weakening the positions of imperialism on the continent," or course, he continued, "in many Latin American countries the armed forces are still playing a reactionary role, and generals are heading dictatorial, antipopular regimes, representing and defending the interests of the foreign monopolies and local cligarchies.

    BOVIN INTERVIEW WITH CASTRO 1975

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