Marxist
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(of an economic or political theory) analogous to or derived from the doctrines of Karl Marx
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of or relating to Marx, Marxism, or Marxists and their theories
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In Wild Horse Nine, a pair of CIA agents take a break from planning to overthrow Chile’s Marxist president to take a vacation on Easter Island.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
In their eyes, he is "a great revolutionary and a great Marxist".
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Last year, Cerimedo was a key player in the election of Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz, the center-right, U.S.-educated son of a former president who transitioned from Marxist firebrand to moderate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
That is 55% more than in 2000, when the U.S. began providing Colombia billions in equipment and training to roll back drug production and Marxist guerrillas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
On our ride into Havana, I got my first glimpse of a political billboard, an enlarged version of the famous photograph of the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara wearing a beret.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
On Sunday afternoon, 157 of the direct elections had been declared: RSP dominating with 121, Nepali Congress 17, and the Marxists of now-defeated Oli trailing with seven.
From Barron's ● Mar. 8, 2026
The son of wealthy Venezuelan Marxists, Ramírez quaffed champagne and chased women like the most sybaritic of bourgeois youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
The place was populated by Marxists and anarchists, “churchmen and agnostics, freethinkers, Darwinists and spiritualists … and dress reform cranks.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
Blaschko said his TikTok viewers come from very different backgrounds—vehement atheists, radical traditional Catholics, nihilists, ex-Mormons, Marxists, and mold eaters.
From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2022
It will be easily understood that the result of such differences of opinion was a sharp divergence inside the "International" between the "Marxists" and "Bakuninists"—a divergence that became irremediable at the Basle Congress of 1869.
From Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by Ernst Viktor Zenker
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