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As early as the 14th Century , it was being used in the English Language with reference to laws, and in the 15th Century came to be used with respect to the realm. The term has taken over from ‘ Sedition ’ as the name for illicit Rebellion , though the connotations of the two words are rather different, sedition suggesting overt attacks on institutions, subversion something much more surreptitious, such as Eroding the basis of belief in the Status Quo or setting people against each other. Subversive activity is the lending of aid, comfort, and moral support to individuals, groups, or organizations that advocate the overthrow of incumbent governments by force and violence. All willful acts that are intended to be detrimental to the best interests of the government and that do not fall into the categories of Treason , sedition, Sabotage , or Espionage are placed in the category of subversive activity. Recent writers, in the Post-modern and Post-structuralist traditions (including, particularly, Feminist writers) have prescribed a very broad form of subversion. It is not, directly, the realm which should be subverted in their view, but the predominant cultural forces, such as Patriarchy , Individualism , and Scientific Rationalism . This broadening of the target of subversion owes much to the ideas of Antonio Gramsci , who stressed that Communist Revolution required the erosion of the particular form of ‘ Cultural Hegemony ’ in any Society . EXTERNAL LINKS
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