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To uproot a social system?



 
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To uproot a social system? #1 (permalink) Tue Dec 08, 2009 0:26 am   To uproot a social system?		  
Is it normal to say: to uproot a system? or there is other words fit the bill?
Eliminate, eradicate?
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To uproot a social system? #2 (permalink) Tue Dec 08, 2009 0:54 am   To uproot a social system?		  
It is fine; as a metaphor it still reminds the reader of eradicating (which means exactly the same) a plant or a tree. The most common way to say the same is perhaps to overthrow a system.
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