16 October 2019
Word of the Day: Bolshevism
BOLSHEVISM. A term derived from the Russian bolshinstvo (majority)
and originally used to designate the radical left among the Communists. The
professed aim of Bolshevism is the overthrow of existing governments and the
substitution of Communism under the dictatorship of the proletariat. It has
been several times condemned by name in papal documents. Pope Pius XI declared,
"We have exposed the errors and the violent deceptive tactics of Bolshevistic
and atheistic Communism" (encyclical Divini Redemptoris, III, 25).
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