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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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Even philosophies of meaning (Marxism, nationalism, utilitarianism) took on a mechanistic bent.—
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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As young men and women embrace faith — along with folk songs, traditional dress and ancient tea ceremonies — some experts see it as a movement back to forms of Vietnamese identity that preceded Marxism and war.—
Damien Cave,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
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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
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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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Glenn Beck would’ve whipped out the chalkboard for an interpretive monologue on the dangers of collectivism.—
Matt K. Lewis,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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The internet was offering a kind of collectivism around the world.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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After World War II, the United States promised to reestablish the global order on the foundations of liberalism.—
Erik Baker,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Trump and conservatives, overall, are obsessed with tarring California — to them, the apotheosis of liberalism — as a violent, lawless, anti-American hellscape.—
Max Taves,
Mercury News,
11 June 2025
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“Bolshevism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bolshevism. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.
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