BOLSHEVISM Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

bolshevism

noun

Definition of bolshevism

as in Marxism

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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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And yet—there is also the Ginsberg who went to Cuba in 1965 to agitate for gay liberation against the homophobic Castro regime, where despite the poet’s own (kind of) Marxism he was expelled.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
In the film, Sonny’s furious tinpot Marxism is part of his skewed reality.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026

Definition of Marxism

Noun

Like Stalinism or the Khmer Rouge, anti-Zionism represents a wrong turn for the left.

— Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
Until Hoxha's break with Nikita Khrushchev's USSR, after the abjuration of Stalinism, Sazan was in Soviet hands, a thorn in the side of the West, a base for 12 Whiskey-class submarines and of chemical-biological weapons plants.

— Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026

Definition of Stalinism

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The research on this topic is extensive and widely debated, but a 2026 study has re-modelled a global individualism-collectivism scale to measure where each country falls.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
In the parlance of the Democratic Socialists of America, of which Mamdani is a member, collectivism is a good thing.

— Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

Definition of collectivism

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But, outside of cosmopolitan sections of Tel Aviv, Herzliya, and Haifa, the liberalism that fuelled his humor couldn’t be taken for granted.

— Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026
Right’s multiculturalism Meanwhile, the American right was increasingly united less by biological notions of race and more by opposition to multiculturalism, feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration and liberalism.

— Eladio Bobadilla, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026

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