有用的白痴

有用的白痴（useful idiot）是一个政治术语，含贬义，指的是为某一事业进行宣传而不完全清楚这一事业的目标的人，常被这一事业的领导人用于讽刺。[1][2]该词最初使用于冷战期间，以形容易于受到共产党宣传和操纵影响的非共产党人士。[1]该词经常被认作是列宁所说[3]，也有说法称是卡尔·拉狄克所说。[4]

参考资料
  1. . . Oxford University Press. 2017.
  2. Holder, R. W., , , Oxford University Press: 394, 2008, ISBN 978-0199235179, useful fool – a dupe of the Communists. Lenin's phrase for the shallow thinkers in the West whom the Communists manipulated. Also as useful idiot.
  3. https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2016/12/25/socialism-shattered-venezuela-useful-idiots-applauded/ZoQnAX5WksuCTauiAjCx4M/story.html
  4. Политика. № 1, 1990. Издательство ЦК КП Эстонии. С. 105.
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