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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India today is marked by soaring inequality, chronic youth unemployment and deepening economic insecurity - conditions in which Marxist politics might once have been expected to flourish.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
“The old is dying and the new cannot be born,” the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci wrote in 1930.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Allen, from what I can tell, was not advocating for social revolution, or a total inversion of the market economy, or the consecration of a Marxist state.
From Slate ● May 1, 2026
A more sophisticated version of the Marxist model was developed in the 1930s by V. Gordon Childe, the archaeologist who first named the Neolithic Revolution and the Urban Revolution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Arnie Weinstein took to frequenting the townie bars, where he attempted to discuss Marxist theory with hostile countermen.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
However, not everyone agreed with this new economic order; Marxists critiqued it and proposed systems focused on equality rather than profit.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Although the Marxists were reluctant to admit it, the Bakouninists had won a complete victory on every important issue.
From Violence and the Labor Movement by Hunter, Robert
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