Anti-politics means moral counter-power aimed against state politics without seeking office

Evidence

Anti-politics is the politicization of people who do not want to become politicians or take a share of power. Anti-politics pursues the creation of independent agencies vis-à-vis political power, anti-politics is a counter-power that cannot come to power and does not want to. Anti-politics already possesses power because of its sheer moral and cultural weight. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 180

Categorization

• DEFINE: Konrád’s canonical definition of anti-politics as counter-power that ‘cannot come to power and does not want to’ — essential to the reader’s reproduction of Jäger’s periodization, since this differs sharply from the later populist mobilization.
• XREF: connects to: Citizens’ anti-politics posturing serves right-wing policy goals. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 933