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subversion can be described as an attack on the public morale, political and social or class loyalties which are usually attached to national symbols.

subversion is a manpower-intensive strategy used by political and military actors to overthrow their government by coup d’état.

the term subversion 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.

The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light.