> I don't even know what the whipping boy was before facism. Possibly Bonapartism It depends on the time and place. The favorite boogeyman of the Bolsheviks we

> I don't even know what the whipping boy was before facism. Possibly Bonapartism It depends on the time and place. The favorite boogeyman of the Bolsheviks were the bourgeoisie at first, followed by the Mensheviks (communists of slightly wrong persuasion), and then counterrevolutionaries. The boogeyman for the royal regimes of the 19th century Europe was the French revolution, anything not sufficiently orthodox was automatically suspect.