📚 noun • entry_id 55207
useful idiot
Meanings (ES + gloss)
idiota útil • tonta útil • tonto útil
A Communist sympathizer in Western countries, from the perspective of the political right.
During the 1930s and ’40s and ’50s, the right had derided liberal writers and editors as Communists’ “useful idiots,” unwittingly doing the Communists’ propaganda work; it looks in…
L'Umanita said the Communists would give the “useful idiots” of the left-wing Socialist party the choice of merging with the Communist party or getting out.
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