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  • Take lobbyism, politicism, and partisanism out of government and maybe we'll see a better future for you, me, our children and the populace as a whole.

    Democrats could vote by Christmas on health-care bill 2009

  • For those of you who don't support him, that is certainly your choice, but the false accusations stem from politicism and racism (whethor you admit it or not).

    Latest Guam presidential results 2008

  • If the price of our supposedly liberated society is an abundance of radicalised elements, perhaps democracy is failing us: surely if anyone feels strongly enough about a political system to take the path of deviant politicism, then surely something is fundamentally broken.

    Simon reviews The Baader-Meinhof Complex | Obsessed With Film 2009

  • The 28-year-old's dance-savvy blend of bass-laden hip-hop, Caribbean raga and cut-and-paste politicism is so unusual, it's made her new CD, "Arular," one of the most talked-about debuts this year.

    PERISCOPE 2007

  • These issues are so complex with much pseudo-science and politicism being presented as fact.

    WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE?? Bryanna Clark Grogan 2007

  • The climate field is rife with this sort of muddled politicism.

    Thompson, Hardy, Hemp and the Snows of Kilimanjaro « Climate Audit 2006

  • In the form of socialism politicism called for the creation of a new social structure through the active interven - tion of the state; in the guise of anarchism it called for the abolition of social structures altogether.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. MADDEN 1968

  • In its dissatisfac - tion with Victorian culture, politicism turned outward and aggressively attacked existing social structures.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. MADDEN 1968

  • The other major devel - opment, which might be generally called “politicism,” represented an opposite movement.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. MADDEN 1968

  • Aestheticism regarded the respectable gentleman as insensitive, dull, and prudish; politicism regarded him as rich, selfish, hypocritical, and counterrevolutionary.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. MADDEN 1968

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