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Marx

Marx

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A German writer who describes how workers, money, and power shape society
  • proper noun
  • /mɑrks/
: Karl Marx
  • In his writings, Marx critiqued the effects of capitalism on society.
  • Karl Marx
  • Marx and Engels
  • Marx's ideas

The the concept of class is older than Marx, much older.

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Examples

  • In Turkey, people were arrested for having books by Marx and Engels.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • Of course, this is invoking Marx and the Communist Manifesto.

  • But for Marx it was a new world.

  • But now Karl Marx was right about one thing.

  • The opium of the people, Marx said.

  • Again we have Marx's notion of surplus value.

  • Named after Karl Marx... ...socialist, some would say the father of modern communism.

  • Woolf frequently makes use of passages from Marx in her account of the ideal society.

    Academic text (1990)
  • I remembered a phrase from Marx which I'd read in the newspaper: the proletarian society.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • And it is this kind of loving critique of Marx's critique of capitalism.

Synonyms

Karl Marx
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German thinker who founded modern communism and wrote the Communist Manifesto

uses only the surname as a shorter, familiar reference

Compounds

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A family of American comedians who made wild, funny films and stage shows

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Marx is a family name that originally came from the personal name Mark, from Latin Marcus and connected to the god Mars, meaning 'warlike'. So Marx began as a way to say 'son of Mark', and today it is best known as the surname of Karl Marx, the political thinker.