2016年12月16日 星期五

Useful idiot;useful many

Vital few and useful many coined by J. M. Juran for the Pareto Distribution or 20-80 rule.


Albrecht Kolthoff


"There could be no more “useful idiot,” to use Lenin’s term of art, than an American president who doesn’t know he’s being played by a wily foreign power."


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Useful idiot - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot

In political jargon, a useful idiot is a person perceived as a propagandist for a cause whose goals they are not fully aware of, and who is used cynically by the ...

Urban Dictionary: Useful idiot

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Useful idiot. Term invented in Soviet Russia to describe people who blindly supported the likes of Lenin and Stalin while they committed atrocity after atrocity.

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