0 trying to destroy or damage something, especially an established political system: --
subversive ideas/influences
1 tending to weaken or destroy an established political system, organization, or authority: --
For better or for worse, historians have to be more critical, or even subversive, in de-constructing this deeply-entrenched acceptance.
With the coming of democratic processes and the struggle for a multi-party system, theatre lost its leading role in politically subversive activity.
Against the subversive function of memory, one must counterpose its consolation.
Not only did print make these areas of life more public, it disseminated different experiences of adultery and was therefore subversive of the moral consensus.
A textual reading, however, will not sustain anything like a clear and satisfying allegory on either side, patriotic or subversive.
On the one hand, it belongs to the genre of the comic tale with socially subversive elements.
To demand such luxury for every believer was always looked upon as subversive by the authorities.
While the theatre was to be the bastion of progress, traditional popular festivities such as carnival with its subversive potential for social inversion, were curbed.
