Soviet-bloc antipolitics meant state overreach into private life, not political withdrawal

Evidence

In Eastern Europe, we are not primarily concerned with the question of whether politics is good or bad, but with the fact that we are surrounded everywhere by too much, all too much politics. The state draws countless matters, questions and decisions into the realm of politics that have no place there. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 178

Categorization

• DEFINE: Konrad’s original sense of antipolitics: resistance to the politicizing state itself — crucial contrast to later Western usage.
• XREF: Sharp inversely mirrors the reader’s hyperpolitics where everything is politicized — here the complaint is the state politicizing everything, but by absorbing rather than by hollowing out.