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Marxism

Marxism

28 6.4
A political and economic theory that says class struggle shapes society and calls for a classless society
  • noun
  • /ˈmɑrkˌsɪzəm/
: marxismo
  • The political theories of Marxism focus on class struggle and economic forces.
  • Marxism and structuralism
  • Marxism and feminism
  • Marxism and psychoanalysis

Go read, go read Marxism, go read it.

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Examples

  • This is an adapted and truer version of Marxism for the Chinese context.

  • Utilitarianism was made famous by Bentham, Marxism obviously made famous by Marx.

  • The book is about Marxism and where it goes wrong.

  • And he was my tutor and took me through the classics of Marxism step by step.

  • All the themes go against both philosophical Marxism and common sense.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Three major views of the state "compete" in modern social science: Marxism, pluralism, and public choice.

    Academic text (1994)
  • And this was a very real concern because Marxism predicted that capitalism would be destroyed by its own contradictions, right?

  • When you start to look at Marxism, traditional Marxism, they divide us up by economics, the haves, the have nots.

  • They may be tedious, but Marxism didn't solve the problem.

  • So that's not capitalism, that's Marxism, that's socialism, That's communism.

Synonyms

scientific socialism
vsMarxism
  • Jargon
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A type of socialism that explains social and economic change by class struggle and uses facts

focuses on class struggle and predicts capitalist replacement by communism

Compounds

A political view that says workers should control society under one leading party, based on Marx and Lenin

neo-Marxism
  • Specialized
1 9.5

A way of looking at society and power that builds on Marx's ideas

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A crude, too simple way of explaining society that ignores many important facts

1 9.9

A political insult used to say diversity policies follow a left agenda

An academic way of studying how class, culture, and identity connect by looking at power and the economy

How Revolutionary

Leninism
  • Specialized
4 8.8
Marxism
28 6.4
socialism
153 5.0
reformism
1 7.8

Surface Forms

Marxism singular
Marxisms plural

Morphology

Marxism = Marx (transparent) = Marx + ism

The suffix '-ism' denotes a theory or ideology, which is clear when attached to a proper noun like 'Marx'.

Etymology

Marxism is named after the thinker Karl Marx, and the ending -ism means 'belief' or 'system', just like in socialism and capitalism. So, Marxism is the set of political and economic ideas or a 'system' that comes from Marx.