long march through the institutions

English

Etymology

Calque of German der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen, coined by German activist Rudi Dutschke in 1967.

Noun

long march through the institutions

  1. (politics) The strategy of reforming society by becoming part of the institutions that control it.
    • Fall 2021, Michael Kazin and Timothy Shenk, “Was the Long March a Dead End? An Exchange on Radicals and the University”, in Dissent‎[1]:
      But my concern—not a deeply held conviction, but a fear I can’t stop returning to—is that the left’s long march through the institutions has run into a dead end.
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