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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At the novel’s outset, María has just chosen to abandon her university studies and her Marxist reading group to focus on her true passions—partying and listening to the Rolling Stones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
During his arrest, Bush accused Humberside Police of treating him like the Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara and attempted to downplay his crimes.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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
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
But the DSA’s big tent also accommodates dedicated Marxists and communists, including several of its 27-member National Political Committee.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
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 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
A general union of "International Socialism" is resolved upon by the Marxists, but does not come to importance. 1879-1890 Law concerning the socialists.
From Socialism and the Social Movement in the 19th Century by Werner Sombart
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