The term antipolitics originated with 1980s Soviet-bloc dissidents

Evidence

As a term, “antipolitics” is intrinsically ambiguous, and its history includes an intriguing twist or semantic shift. It was coined in the 1980s by dissident intellectuals in the Soviet bloc. As Hungarian writer Gyorgy Konrad wrote in a now-classic essay: 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. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 177

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes etymology and original geographic-intellectual context of ‘antipolitics’ before later repurposing.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: when and why did ‘antipolitics’ get repurposed by Western left critics away from its dissident origins?