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Marxism

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as in Communism

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Recent Examples of Marxism The group is seen by many Iranians as a cult whose eclectic ideology, which mixes Islam and Marxism, is easily as unpalatable as the Islamic Republic’s. — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2026 Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form (Princeton University Press, 1974), 103, 105. — Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026 Russia is now propelled by not Marxism but nationalism under the two-beamed cross of Orthodoxy. — Josef Joffe, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026 Twitter no longer feels essential or expansive; the platform has become balkanized, fracturing into a hodgepodge of esoteric and oftentimes anachronistic conversations about housing policy, candidate polling, Marxism, and whatever else. — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for Marxism

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Quite a few rights-defenders, to be sure, began their search for first principles with the idea of a return to Leninism.

— Benjamin Nathans September 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
The kindergarten Leninism espoused by the DSA’s current leadership does not.

— Harper's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025

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Like Stalinism or the Khmer Rouge, anti-Zionism represents a wrong turn for the left.

— Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
Until Hoxha's break with Nikita Khrushchev's USSR, after the abjuration of Stalinism, Sazan was in Soviet hands, a thorn in the side of the West, a base for 12 Whiskey-class submarines and of chemical-biological weapons plants.

— Marzio G. Mian, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026

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The research on this topic is extensive and widely debated, but a 2026 study has re-modelled a global individualism-collectivism scale to measure where each country falls.

— Mark Carey, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2026
In the parlance of the Democratic Socialists of America, of which Mamdani is a member, collectivism is a good thing.

— Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 6 July 2026

Definition of collectivism

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But, outside of cosmopolitan sections of Tel Aviv, Herzliya, and Haifa, the liberalism that fuelled his humor couldn’t be taken for granted.

— Bernard Avishai, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2026
Right’s multiculturalism Meanwhile, the American right was increasingly united less by biological notions of race and more by opposition to multiculturalism, feminism, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration and liberalism.

— Eladio Bobadilla, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026

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