cultural Bolshevism
cultural Bolshevism noun: culture, and art in particular, that the Nazi party considered to be undesirable or degenerate (entartet) and undermining (zersetzen) the völkisch ideology and party line.
Noun
cultural Bolshevism (uncountable)
- Culture, and art in particular, that the Nazi party considered to be undesirable or degenerate (entartet) and undermining (zersetzen) the völkisch ideology and party line.
- He [Björn Höcke] uses terminology and concepts once used by Hitler himself, including racial suicide, a “decaying state’’ and “cultural Bolshevism.”[2019 October 26, Katrin Bennhold, Melissa Eddy, “‘Hitler or Höcke?’ Germany’s Far-Right Party Radicalizes”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
- Often cultural bolshevism and Jewish culture were seen as equivalent, since Bolshevism, Marxism, and Communism were considered to have originated from Jewish minds as those of Marx and Engels.2020, “Entartete Musik: Perpertrators and Victims”, in Dina Siegel, Frank Bovenkerk, editors, Crime and Music, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 17
Origin of cultural Bolshevism
Calque of German Kulturbolschewismus.
Questions about cultural Bolshevism
- What does cultural Bolshevism mean?
- Cultural Bolshevism means culture, and art in particular, that the Nazi party considered to be undesirable or degenerate (entartet) and undermining (zersetzen) the völkisch ideology and party line.
- What part of speech is cultural Bolshevism?
- Cultural Bolshevism is a noun.
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