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The romantic was at the fore in his literary criticism but also played a role in his political writing, particularly in his nostalgic view of his youthful activism in a Trotskyist groupuscule at Oxford.—Christian Lorentzen, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022 The head of the Policy Unit, Munira Mirza, is a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, a Trotskyite groupuscule, and enthusiastic contributor to its house organ, Living Marxism.—The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019 See the special issue of Patterns of Prejudice 36:3 (July 2002) on radical right groupuscules, put together by Roger Griffin.
8.—Robert O. Paxton, Slate Magazine, 6 Apr. 2017
Word History
Etymology
French, from groupe group + -uscule (as in corpuscule corpuscle)
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