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Recent Examples of Marxism
Even philosophies of meaning (Marxism, nationalism, utilitarianism) took on a mechanistic bent.
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
As young men and women embrace faith — along with folk songs, traditional dress and ancient tea ceremonies — some experts see it as a movement back to forms of Vietnamese identity that preceded Marxism and war.
—Damien Cave, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Value-form theory, as it’s often called, pays less attention than prior incarnations of Marxism did to the fission between labor and capital contained in the atom of the capitalist commodity, and stresses instead that both capitalists and workers must obey the same remorseless economic law.
—Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
With Marxism tainted by its aggressive materialism, and mere democratic socialism so mere, anarchism could be imagined as a series of defiant spiritual acts.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Assad was an ally of the Soviet Union, and the PKK adhered to Marxism-Leninism until the end of the Cold War.
—Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2025
Her friends vaguely discuss gentrification and Marxism.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
In a similar way, even most of those who worked for the Soviet regime had stopped believing in Marxism by the 1980s.
—Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
The writers and academics who abandoned Marxism to found the neoconservative movement were deeply concerned with political freedom and the moral decline of American society.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
As young men and women embrace faith — along with folk songs, traditional dress and ancient tea ceremonies — some experts see it as a movement back to forms of Vietnamese identity that preceded Marxism and war.
—Damien Cave, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
Value-form theory, as it’s often called, pays less attention than prior incarnations of Marxism did to the fission between labor and capital contained in the atom of the capitalist commodity, and stresses instead that both capitalists and workers must obey the same remorseless economic law.
—Benjamin Kunkel, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
With Marxism tainted by its aggressive materialism, and mere democratic socialism so mere, anarchism could be imagined as a series of defiant spiritual acts.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Assad was an ally of the Soviet Union, and the PKK adhered to Marxism-Leninism until the end of the Cold War.
—Halil Karaveli, Foreign Affairs, 3 Feb. 2025
Her friends vaguely discuss gentrification and Marxism.
—Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2025
In a similar way, even most of those who worked for the Soviet regime had stopped believing in Marxism by the 1980s.
—Margaret MacMillan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
The writers and academics who abandoned Marxism to found the neoconservative movement were deeply concerned with political freedom and the moral decline of American society.
—Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Marxism
Noun
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Orwell would spend the rest of his life trying to clarify that in his time the left meant both idealists committed to human rights, equality, and justice and supporters of a Stalinism that was the antithesis of all those things.—
Rebecca Solnit
February 23,
Literary Hub,
23 Feb. 2024
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Medieval threat to democracy The rhetoric of absolving Stalinism goes hand in hand with popularizing the state’s version of the Russian Middle Ages through public media channels.—
Dina Khapaeva,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Glenn Beck would’ve whipped out the chalkboard for an interpretive monologue on the dangers of collectivism.—
Matt K. Lewis,
The Orlando Sentinel,
16 May 2025
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The internet was offering a kind of collectivism around the world.—
Brent Lang,
Variety,
15 May 2025
Noun
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After World War II, the United States promised to reestablish the global order on the foundations of liberalism.—
Erik Baker,
Harpers Magazine,
18 June 2025
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Trump and conservatives, overall, are obsessed with tarring California — to them, the apotheosis of liberalism — as a violent, lawless, anti-American hellscape.—
Max Taves,
Mercury News,
11 June 2025
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“Marxism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Marxism. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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