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• radicalisation

From radical + -ization.

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radicalization (countable and uncountable, plural radicalizations)

1. The process of radicalizing.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:

     This remark, it is true, belongs to a time when Engels was himself connected with the Young Hegelians […] nevertheless, it is typical of the hopes that were cherished in the early stages for a radicalization of the master's system.

   • 2020, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, unnumbered page:

     From there, it was only a short step to “Kekism,” at once a joke religion and a precursor of the reactionary radicalization to follow.

   • 2025 November 1, Richard Hanania, “It’s the Groypers’ America now We’re just living in it”, in UnHerd‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2025:

     One way to see the radicalization of the likes of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly is that they are adopting Fuentes-Lite positions on issues like immigration and vaccines.

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