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Marxism

Marxism

3 6.4
A political and economic theory that says class struggle shapes society and calls for a classless society
  • noun
  • /ˈmɑrkˌsɪzəm/
translation icon : 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
8.2

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

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

9.9

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

neo-Marxism
  • Specialized
9.5

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

9.9

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

How Revolutionary

Leninism
  • Specialized
4 8.8
Marxism
3 6.4
socialism
192 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.