Bolshevism Changed Its Skin. 7 of Its Modern Incarnations

One hundred and six years ago, Bolshevik Russia was crushed near Warsaw, and in 1991 its Soviet incarnation fell. However, as publicist Stanisław Bukowicz rightly notes, Bolshevism has not disappeared. It changed its skin and returned insidiously – in words, school textbooks, and in the way man is perceived. This is not merely a historical memory, but a real threat to Christian civilization.

The New Man and Gender

Revolution has always dreamed of creating a "new man." Leon Trotsky promised that the ordinary bread-eater would rise to the level of Aristotle and Goethe. Today, this temptation has returned in the ideology of gender, which treats the human body as a project and sex as a matter of choice. Benedict XVI warned back in 2012 that man questions his own nature, becoming merely spirit and will, which inevitably leads to the denial of the Creator.

Politics Intrudes into Every Sphere of Life

In normal times, politics had its limits – it concerned war and peace, taxes and courts. Bolshevism abolished privacy, subordinating everything to ideology. Today, the slogan "the personal is political" has become reality: disputes over mores, family, or abortion have replaced debate on tariffs and borders. Our entire life is becoming an arena of struggle.

The Fight Against the Family and the New Proletariat

The family has always been a thorn in the side of revolutionaries because it breeds loyalty stronger than the party. The Soviets loosened marriage law, legalized abortion, and made the informer Pavlik Morozov a hero. Today, we encounter such "Pavliks" on the internet, with hashtags instead of pioneer scarves. In turn, the Marxist class struggle has found new "oppressed": minorities, animals, and even the planet. In beauty contests, race matters; in Eurovision, political correctness; and red stripes on school report cards are considered discrimination.

Newspeak and Socialism in Capitalist Garb

Orwell taught that whoever rules words rules thoughts. Today, newspeak takes the form of feminatives, which instead of uniting, divide – man and woman begin to compete even in grammar. Add to this "verbal cotton wool": an alcoholic becomes a "person in an alcohol crisis," and a lie becomes "a departure from the truth." In the economy, Marx's postulates are being implemented: progressive taxes, hindering inheritance, control of money. EU plans resemble Soviet five-year plans, and ESG is nothing more than the compulsion to implement goals imposed by corporations like BlackRock.

Secular Salvation – the Heart of the Matter

Revolution is playing for more than taxes and rights – it desires man's self-salvation on earth. This justifies violence and the search for enemies of the people. The eternal division into clean and dirty, into us and the damned, is the same promise: one more surge and "the bloody toil will end." But paradise on earth cannot be built – one can, however, build hell.

• New man: gender as a modern version of the Bolshevik dream of remaking man.
• Politicization of life: politics intrudes into family, school, art, and sport.
• New proletariat: minorities, animals, and the planet as new "oppressed."
• Newspeak: feminatives and euphemisms as tools of worldview struggle.
• Socialism in capitalism: progressive taxes, ESG, and EU plans modeled on five-year plans.
• Secular salvation: utopia as justification for violence and totalitarianism.

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