What could be the historical context behind this?

  • Coolkidbozzy [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Could some of the entries just be misdated by 100 years? I feel like there's no context in the world where this would make sense

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      There's context here. I have an edition of the Bible that mentions Thomas Jefferson in the preface. Could be the Google index is going off original publication date, not updated edition date.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Could be a more recent foreword in an older book.

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I think that makes sense - all the anachronistic mentions appear to be placed from 1820-1840 which is just about when the term started taking off. Might be due to a printing error or even some wonky font stuff leading to the date being recorded a century earlier.

  • TheCaconym [any]
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    3 years ago

    The context is obvious: Soviet time travelers.

  • cybernetsoc [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The prophecy foretold Lenin's birth and his intellectual contributions!

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    It's definitely some kind of more recent edition of a book that the editors put in a reference, footnote, or preface that mentions Marxism-Leninism. It might be a book by one of those pre-Marx utopian socialists, like Robert Owens

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I would guess that it's Google's robot that reads books and logs the info misreading a year.

  • im_smoke [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's just Google Book's OCR messing up reading publish dates as 182X instead of 192X.