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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.
or Leftist. 1. a member of the political Left or a person sympathetic to its views. 2. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or advocated by the political Left. Sarkozy, after all, campaigned against the excesses of 1960s leftism.