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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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Value-form theory, as it’s often called, pays less attention than prior incarnations of Marxism did to the fission between labor and capital contained in the atom of the capitalist commodity, and stresses instead that both capitalists and workers must obey the same remorseless economic law.—
Benjamin Kunkel,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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With Marxism tainted by its aggressive materialism, and mere democratic socialism so mere, anarchism could be imagined as a series of defiant spiritual acts.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 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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Again, Breaking With Trump Caroline Ellison, Star Witness in FTX Case, Should Receive Lenient Sentence, Prosecutors Signal Trumpism, Stalinism and the Tariff Debate An 8-Year-Old Ohio Girl Takes a Solo Drive to Target in Family’s SUV Trump and Other Presidents Embrace Golf.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
17 Sep. 2024
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In emphasizing the importance of the group, Volkov is in line with Soviet propaganda and thought, where stories of friendship were used to promote unity and collectivism.—
Christin Bohnke,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Mar. 2025
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In summary, Chinese culture strongly influences workers in manufacturing, fostering values of respect for authority, dedication, and collectivism while also contributing to long working hours and a focus on family and societal obligations.—
Dave Evans,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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On these matters, he is not guided by rational cost-benefit analysis or dealmaking so much as by real animus against democracy, liberalism, and the West, together with a determination to resurrect the Russian empire.—
Michael McFaul,
The Atlantic,
10 Mar. 2025
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The original Nature article that features the heatmaps examines how the two main political ideologies — liberalism and conservatism — reflect differences in the levels of moral compassion.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Mar. 2025
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