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
  • The packet that Bruce assembled for the Social Security competition stressed that government support shored up the traditional family the way that pioneering families had helped one another; the effect was to associate the new policy with the American frontier, rather than radical collectivism.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • California is a kind of crystal ball for American liberalism more than many people realize.
    Caroline Mimbs Nyce, New Yorker, 2 June 2026
  • The dominant normative theory across most of the modern world is derived from liberalism, as expressed in such classic early works as John Stuart Mill’s essay On Liberty, published in 1859.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026

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