bolshevism

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Recent Examples of bolshevism Fear of bolshevism blended with a long-standing hostility toward certain classes of immigrants. Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
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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
  • 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
  • This critique involved not just intellectuals on the left, but also famous American realists who played a key part in rallying U.S. liberal opinion to resist Nazism and Stalinism.
    Anatol Lieven, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The kindergarten Leninism espoused by the DSA’s current leadership does not.
    Harper's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Later, from the stage, both Thompson and Julia Roberts urged collectivism while recounting the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti—two 37-year-old American citizens who were both fatally shot this January by federal immigration agents.
    Kenneal Patterson, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026
  • Some skeptics argue that universal healthcare represents a form of socialized medicine, government control of the market, or even a dangerous step toward collectivism.
    Wei Zhang, Mercury News, 13 June 2026
Noun
  • The Semiquincentennial Commission was conjured into being by Congress back in 2016, during that long-ago summer when the Democratic Party was convening in Philadelphia and the succession of one form of representational liberalism to another seemed pretty well secure.
    Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • Those of us who care about keeping liberalism alive need Europeans to start defending it against all of its enemies—in Moscow, Beijing, and Washington.
    Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026

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“Bolshevism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bolshevism. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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