politicalization

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English

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Etymology

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From politicalize +‎ -ation.

Noun

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politicalization (countable and uncountable, plural politicalizations)

  1. The process or instance of making something political.
    Synonym: politicization
    • 1976 December 18, Jack Peterson, “No 'Closet' Nazi”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 4:
      The Right has been a defender of tradition in order to prevent the destruction of various institutional loyalties and values which have stood as a break on total politicalization. By attacking these institutions and values the Left threatens us all, gay or straight, with totalitarianism.
    • 2004, Eugene Walker Gogol, Raya Dunayevskaya: philosopher of Marxist-Humanism[1]:
      The needed philosophic nucleus which will be leadership, proletarianization, politicalization.