Leninism

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Recent Examples of Leninism The kindergarten Leninism espoused by the DSA’s current leadership does not. Harper's Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
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Noun
  • One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.
    Mike Dunleavy, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025
  • What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?
    Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • Orwell would spend the rest of his life trying to clarify that in his time the left meant both idealists committed to human rights, equality, and justice and supporters of a Stalinism that was the antithesis of all those things.
    Rebecca Solnit February 23, Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Medieval threat to democracy The rhetoric of absolving Stalinism goes hand in hand with popularizing the state’s version of the Russian Middle Ages through public media channels.
    Dina Khapaeva, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025

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