What does the sentence "America is being co-opted by Marxism" mean? What does co-opt mean in this sentence?
reptax What does the sentence "America is being co-opted by Marxism" mean? What does co-opt mean in this sentence? It means that the writer has a shaky grasp of the word.
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reptaxWhat does the sentence "America is being co-opted by Marxism" mean? What does co-opt mean in this sentence?
It means that the writer has a shaky grasp of the word. He is trying to say that Marxism is using subterfuge to become the dominant political-economic philosophy in the US.
reptaxWhat does co-opt mean in this sentence?
From the definition "take for one's own use" I read it simply as "take over".
America is being co-opted by Marxism.
America is being taken over by Marxism.
(But Marxism is as old as the hills, and as such it seems to me it's quite out of fashion these days. I can't imag