英:['gru:pəskju:l]
美:['grupəskjul]
英:['gru:pəskju:l]
美:['grupəskjul]
noun
a small group of political activists
French, from groupe group + -uscule (as in corpuscule corpuscle)
The first known use of groupuscule was in 1963
1 The romantic was at the fore in his literary criticism but also played a role in his political writing, particularly in his nostalgic view of his youthful activism in a Trotskyist groupuscule at Oxford.
2 The head of the Policy Unit, Munira Mirza, is a former member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, a Trotskyite groupuscule, and enthusiastic contributor to its house organ, Living Marxism.
3 See the special issue of Patterns of Prejudice 36:3 (July 2002) on radical right groupuscules, put together by Roger Griffin.8.