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Recent Examples of Marxism
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.
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Mike Dunleavy, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025
What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
Even philosophies of meaning (Marxism, nationalism, utilitarianism) took on a mechanistic bent.
—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
Mike Dunleavy, New York Daily News, 14 July 2025
What does Marxism have to do with the policy positions of a Socialist?
—Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
Even philosophies of meaning (Marxism, nationalism, utilitarianism) took on a mechanistic bent.
—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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Marxism
Noun
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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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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
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This critique involved not just intellectuals on the left, but also famous American realists who played a key part in rallying U.S. liberal opinion to resist Nazism and Stalinism.—
Anatol Lieven,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Fear of bolshevism blended with a long-standing hostility toward certain classes of immigrants.—
Adam Hochschild,
The New Yorker,
4 Nov. 2019
Noun
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Some cross-cultural psychologists point to Eastern collectivism and Western individualism to explain such results, but Frank remains agnostic.—
Nora Bradford,
Scientific American,
22 Aug. 2025
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Between collectivism and capitalism.—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Aug. 2025
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Although the book is set in an unnamed year, Harold easily tracks as the type of male voter who has recently drifted toward the political right, animated by suspicions that modern liberalism has forgotten about people like him.—
Jeremy Gordon,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2025
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And in modern American culture, liberalism is being squeezed from both sides of the political aisle.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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