Leninist

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The likeliest answer comes in the form of an old Leninist maxim: “Probe with bayonets. If you find mush, push.”

From Seattle Times

There’s a coda to the Leninist maxim about probing with bayonets.

From Seattle Times

But he backed down in the face of a political backlash, leading analysts at the Cato Institute to call for a “Leninist” strategy — their word — creating a coalition ready to exploit a future crisis if and when one arrived.

From Seattle Times

“You could see that he wanted to be thought of as somebody who was not the sort of retrograde, Leninist leader clinging to his notes,” said the journalist Orville Schell, who was on Mr. Clinton’s trip and who is now director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York.

From New York Times

Contentious even within communities of activists, she confronted Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights supporters over the issue of sterilization abuse and was thrown out of the Leninist October League after criticizing its treatment of women.

From Washington Post