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Usage note Expand. When Bolshevik is used to refer to an extreme radical, it implies that such a person has a strongly felt subversive or combative ideology counter to the status quo. The 20-century poets T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound were called literary Bolsheviks by a writer in a London newspaper.
Socialist (Americans used to say 'radical') is the opposite of both conservative and liberal. In Britain, we would do well to ignore the party names and look at the policies. The Tory party was fascist, and is now neoliberal in most respects except those of workers' rights and subservience to the US empire, where they remain fascist and collaborationist.