Posted on 02/07/2010 11:19:02 AM PST by Starman417
Obama denies being an ideologue or a Bolshevik, why? Is he ashamed of his heritage and convictions, are just intent on keeping his motivations covert until the right time to spring his true nature upon us. Or is there a technicality that we need to grasp?
Perhaps we should analyze the term Bolshevik. Historically, the Bolsheviks were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), founded by Vladimir Lenin, they split from the Menshevik faction in 1903, during the Second Party Congress. They eventually gained control during the October phase of the Revolution in 1917. Bolshevik means majority or large and the nick name resulted from having the majority rule in a crucial vote. Later on after gaining complete control, Lenin maintained that since there was no opposition, there was no longer the need to call themselves the majority party or Bolsheviks, thus they named themselves the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Eventually, Lenin died and Stalin gained control of the party, Trotsky was exiled and wrote extensively condemning Stalin's 'incorrect' version of Communism by referring to it as Bolshevism, a derivative of Bolshevik, in opposition to Leninism. Consequently the term Bolshevik developed negative connotations for the 'pure' Communist; perhaps this explains President Obama's displeasure at being called a Bolshevik. He like many others must feel the sting of those who are critical of Stalin's regime.
Ideologue: the term evolved in the highly contested political and philosophical debates of the French Revolution; coined by Destutt de Tracy, initially, it referred to the study of the science of ideas or the study of ideas and the means and logic of those ideas.
Read more at floppingaces.net...
The Muslim influence? Name me one Muslim leader, sympathizer or tyrant he hasn't curtsied to?
Yes, Obama. It IS “some kind of bolshevik plot” you and your pals are cooking up.
Those of us who pay attention see it. Lech Walesa sees it. The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) sees it and approves wholeheartedly of it.
Nice try, Obama, but naming it does not refute it.
bum link....this search link for bolshevik will work:
http://www.floppingaces.net/?s=Bolshevik
The term "Bolshevik" appears to be chosen with care.
(Think plausible deniability and Clintonian sophistry here.)
Today's Marxists, communists, socialists, and global collectivists simply do not bill themselves as "Bolsheviks".
Hypothetically, if someone in the public eye WAS a Marxist (or communist, or socialist, etc)...
AND, it that person wanted to fool you into thinking he was NOT...(and if that person thought you were pretty stupid)
THEN that person could might that he is not a Bolshevik, as though anyone thought that he was.
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And then this hypothetical person in the public eye might hope to heck that the (alleged) press would not up by agressively inquiring about philosophical resonance with Marxism, communism, socialism, or etc?
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