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Recent Examples of bolshevism
Fear of bolshevism blended with a long-standing hostility toward certain classes of immigrants.
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Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
Adam Hochschild, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bolshevism
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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
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What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?—
Matt Fleming,
Oc Register,
13 July 2025
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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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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
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The kindergarten Leninism espoused by the DSA’s current leadership does not.—
Harper's Magazine,
Harper's Magazine,
27 Feb. 2025
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The record might be considered the third in a trilogy exploring the importance of community, collectivism, and solidarity, in both joy and defiance.—
Philip Sherburne,
Pitchfork,
2 Feb. 2026
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There is a strong sense of duality throughout: characters code-switch between Nigerian and Pidgin, the soundtrack juggles tense strings with rap music, Lady balances the masculine and feminine, while the theme of individualism vs collectivism bubbles on the backburner.—
Sophie Monks Kaufman,
IndieWire,
22 Jan. 2026
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During Vargas Llosa’s lifetime, his political beliefs underwent extreme changes, from supporting Castro’s revolutionary Communism to championing traditional European liberalism, which included an adamantine belief in unregulated markets.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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The 1984 speech that so moved Baldwin remains one of the greatest articulations of American liberalism ever made.—
Adam Serwer,
The Atlantic,
17 Feb. 2026
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