Marxism
noun
Marx·ism
ˈmärk-ˌsi-zəm 
: the political, economic, and social principles and policies advocated by Marx
especially
: a theory and practice of socialism (see socialism sense 3) including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society
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Over time, the congress fostered a transnational network of culturally influential elites who favored liberal democracy over communism and Marxism.
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Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
There’s a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party.
—ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
Sandinista ideology blended Marxism, liberalism, and nationalism, borrowing ideas from both sides of the Iron Curtain.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Weyman wanted to determine whether Sweezy had advocated for Marxism or said that socialism was inevitable in the country.
—Laura Gail Miller, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
By the early post-World War II period, the demographic cohort most likely to rebel against authority—namely, youth—had been molded by Soviet institutions in which the revolutionary teachings of Marxism-Leninism had achieved the status of sacred canon.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
For many Jewish immigrants in the United States, Marxism would, in the twentieth century, replace Judaism as a common faith.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.
—Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.
—Mike Dunleavy, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025
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Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
There’s a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party.
—ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
Sandinista ideology blended Marxism, liberalism, and nationalism, borrowing ideas from both sides of the Iron Curtain.
—Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
Weyman wanted to determine whether Sweezy had advocated for Marxism or said that socialism was inevitable in the country.
—Laura Gail Miller, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
By the early post-World War II period, the demographic cohort most likely to rebel against authority—namely, youth—had been molded by Soviet institutions in which the revolutionary teachings of Marxism-Leninism had achieved the status of sacred canon.
—Benjamin Nathans
september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
For many Jewish immigrants in the United States, Marxism would, in the twentieth century, replace Judaism as a common faith.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.
—Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
One America, with coastal elites in places like New York City and Los Angeles, who continue to steamroll towards full-on Marxism, and another with ordinary, hard-working Americans across the country, like here in the great state of Alaska, who don’t embrace this extremism.
—Mike Dunleavy, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025
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“Marxism.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Marxism. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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