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Marxian

American  
[mahrk-see-uhn] / ˈmɑrk si ən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Karl Marx or his theories.


Marxian British  
/ ˈmɑːksɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Karl Marx and his theories

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of Marxian

First recorded in 1885–90; Marx + -ian

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This leads him to such “structural” Marxian insights as the following: Stanford University is a “human capital” factory, a “breeding and training project.”

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023

He lambasted the polymathic Bertrand Russell and Marxian philosopher Herbert Marcuse — darlings of liberal social activists — as “the Abbott and Costello of political philosophy.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022

Contrast the Hegelian and Marxian concepts of dialectic.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

I decided that I had to combine some understandings generated by Marxian analysis with other political and intellectual lines of reasoning.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 6, 2019

It would seem that Kautsky had a sufficiently complete political keyboard before him to be able to strike the note which would give a true Marxian key to the Russian Revolution.

From Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) by Trotzky, Leon Davidovich

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