Republicans are skeptical of this tone of apoliticism.

Badiou thereby marks out a philosophy by which to refute the apparent relativism or apoliticism in post-structuralist thought.

Lunts was vilified by the Soviet establishment for his "cosmopolitanism" and apoliticism", along with his fellow Serapion brother Mikhail Zoshchenko.

Despite his apoliticism, Nelson is extremely close friends with fictional US President Henry Talbot MacNeil, and was counted as one of the president's poker buddies.

He cited as especially dangerous Mr. Chavez's "insistence on the proposal to eliminate 'no immediate re-election' and the apoliticism of the armed forces, which have been so significant to the political history of Venezuela and all Latin America."

However, despite the historical reputation for left-wing activism amongst Keele students which once had the campus labelled "The Kremlin on the Hill" by local people, the university has more recently been a centre of apoliticism, with political groups struggling to recruit on campus.

General Krulak and others who signed on to the Bush campaign have strongly defended their right to endorse the Texas governor, a point that is not contested by their critics, who simply warn that so many four-star officers backing a candidate, openly and in concert, undermined the military's carefully cultivated apoliticism.