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Marxist

Marxist

43 6.3
A person who supports Karl Marx's ideas about class and social equality
  • noun
  • /ˈmɑrk.sɪst/
translation icon : marxista
  • There were two reasons in Marxist thought as to why the proletariat would lead the revolution.
  • Marxist-Leninist
  • Marxists believe
  • Hegelian Marxists

And my suspicion is the Marxists are after our constitution.

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Examples

  • They tell me that I have become a Marxist because of this.

  • I agree with Rosa Luxembourg, the great Marxist revolutionary.

  • You know, I'm, I, I came from a, a Marxist background and I believe in freedom.

  • And a point made at length by Marxist critics of capitalism.

  • So I guess that makes me the only Marxist around here, right, comrade?

  • Is this debate among Marxists about the role of the state.

  • Russia had been thrown upon a bold and dangerous course under a Marxist inspired revolutionary party.

  • Berdyaev, in his early days as a Marxist, saw politics as a snare and a delusion, a mask.

    Academic text (1991)
  • One of his warmest admirers was Paul Sweezy, a young Marxist who assisted him in the graduate course on theory.

    Academic text (1991)
  • She has always identified as a Marxist and participates in discussions about social justice.

Synonyms

Communist
vsMarxist
18 4.4

A person who wants businesses and land owned by the community, not by individuals

focuses on following Marx's theories rather than party membership
red
vsMarxist
  • Archaic
13 9.1

A person who supports extreme left politics

refers specifically to someone who believes in Marx's political and economic ideas
Marxian
vsMarxist
8.0

A person who follows Karl Marx's ideas about politics and the economy

is the common everyday label for the same belief

Compounds

cultural Marxist
  • Offensive
1 8.9

A person who promotes Marxist ideas to change culture, often used as an insult

Surface Forms

Marxist singular
Marxists plural

Morphology

Marxist = Marx (transparent) = Marx + ist

The suffix '-ist' productively denotes a follower or supporter of the named person or doctrine; 'Marx' + '-ist' clearly yields 'supporter of Marx'.

Etymology

Marxist comes from the name Marx, the thinker Karl Marx, plus the ending -ist, the same ending you see in artist or pianist and meaning 'a person who supports or follows' an idea. So, a Marxist is a person who supports Marx's ideas about class, work, and society.