What are some connotative meanings for subversives

Revolutionaries or rebels.

Explanation:

Subversives tend to overturn or overthrow an authority or institution. These can be connotatively called as revolutionaries or rebels as they intend or imply to alter the existing faulty values and principles in order to reform the society for its betterment. The established norms and value systems are being challenged by the revolutionaries who intend to reform the contradictory values and challenge the hierarchies and the people in power to reverse them. Writers may also be treated as subversives as they tend to highlight the flaws of the social and political system and suggests the alternate values to be propagated. For say, Karl Marx subverted the capitalistic belief system to overthrow them and urged for a communist society.

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