Long march through the institutions

The long march through the institutions (German: der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen) is a slogan coined by socialist student activist Rudi Dutschke around 1967 to describe his strategy to create radical change in government by becoming part of it.^[1] The phrase "long march" is a reference to the physical Long March of the Chinese communist army.^[2]

Commentary[edit]

Roger Kimball wrote that it was by these means of "insinuation and infiltration" that the countercultural ideals of Herbert Marcuse gained influence.^[2] Helmut Schelsky wrote that the long march was part of a strategy towards "the conquest of the system" (German: Systemüberwindung) through efforts to discredit the values and processes of constitutional democracy.^[9]

Entryism

Fifth column

Long game

Paradigm shift

Vanguardism

(2006), Strategy, Hegemony and the 'Long March': Gramsci's Lessons for the Antiwar Movement, ISBN 9781430329589

Davidson, Carl

Degroot, Gerard (2014), "Rudi Dutschke's Long March", Student Protest: The Sixties and After, Routledge, 9781317880493

ISBN

(2001), The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, Encounter Books, ISBN 978-1893554306

Kimball, Roger

(10 December 1971), "Die Strategie der "Systemüberwindung". Der lange Marsch durch die Institutionen.", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Schelsky, Helmut

(1972). Counterrevolution and Revolt. Boston: Beacon Press. p. 55–56. ISBN 0-8070-1533-4.

Marcuse, Herbert

—— (2014), Marxism, Revolution and Utopia: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, vol. 6, Routledge, 9781317805564

ISBN

Dalton, Russell (1987), "Generational Change in Elite Political Beliefs: The Growth of Ideological Polarization", The Journal of Politics, 49 (4): 976–997, :10.2307/2130780, JSTOR 2130780, S2CID 154318378

doi

[in German]; Rudzio; Vilmar; Wilke (1980), Der Marsch der DKP durch die Institutionen: Sowjetmarxistische Einflußstrategien und Ideologien, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, ISBN 3-596-24223-1

Flechtheim

[in German] (1973), "The Long March Through the Institutions", Conflict Studies, vol. 33, Institute for the Study of Conflict

Horchem, Hans Josef

—— (1975), Extremisten in einer selbstbewussten Demokratie, Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder, 3-451-07515-6

ISBN

Niedenhoff, Horst-Udo (1979), Auf dem Marsch durch die Institutionen, Köln: Deutscher Instituts-Verlag, 3-88054-325-9

ISBN

Ross, Robert (2010), "Reflections on the Sociology Liberation Movement of 1968", Crisis, Politics and Critical Sociology, BRILL, 9789004179486

ISBN

[in German] (1994), Die vierte Gewalt, Frankfurt am Main: Ullstein, ISBN 3-548-36635-X

Rudorf, Reginald

(1 February 2009), "The Rise and Fall of an International Counterculture 1960–1975", The American Historical Review, 114 (1): 45–68, doi:10.1086/ahr.114.1.45

Suri, Jeremi

Waldman, Eric (1976), Deutschlands Weg in den Sozialismus, Mainz: V. Hase + Koehler, 3-7758-0922-8