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marxism

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The socialist philosophy and political program developed by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Marx and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Engels. 2 Any social or political philosophy or ideology derived from the thought of Karl Marx.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1885, probably immediately from French marxisme ; see Marxist + -ism . From 1884 as Karl Marxism .

Usage examples of marxism.

Social Darwinism was, not unnaturally, compared with Marxism and not only in the minds of Russian intellectuals.

When he left Austria for Germany in 1913 at the age of twenty-four, he was full of a burning passion for German nationalism, a hatred for democracy, Marxism and the Jews and a certainty that Providence had chosen the Aryans, especially the Germans, to be the master race.

After a few months at Eastern, Deng switched to the newly opened Sun Yatsen University, where the curriculum was devoted entirely to Marxism, Leninism and other subjects designed to mold effective cadres.

The Modern State arose indeed out of the same social imperatives and the same constructive impulses that begot Marxism and Leninism, but as an independent, maturer, and sounder revolutionary conception.

The tariqat was a far older tradition than Marxism, more staunchly rooted, in some ways harsher in its discipline.

The only system of thought open to them at that time was official Marxism, which demanded a nationalistic loyalty towards Russia and forced the writer who called himself a Marxist to be mixed up in the dishonesties of power politics.

Each year shows more and more clearly that Marxism and Communism are divagations from the path of human progress and that the line of advance must follow a course more intricate and less flattering to the common impulses of our nature.

His vulgarised Marxism was an attempt to reconcile reform and revolution.

Lenin had attempted to educate a leadership, to instil into the cadres of Bolshevism the basic ideas, method and programme of Marxism.

In order to outline, approximately in a few words, the nature and extent of those former disagreements of mine with Bolshevism, I will say this: During the time when I stood outside the Bolshevik party, during that period when my differences with Bolshevism reached their highest point, the distance separating me from the views of Lenin was never as great as the distance which separates the present position of Stalin-Bukharin from the very foundations of Marxism and Leninism.

It became a classical centrist party, wavering between the ideas of Marxism and reformism.

But, in fact, the entire method of Monty Johnstone's Cogito article is alien to Marxism.

Here he was, sitting in the corner booth of a fine, expensive restaurant with a ten-page wine list in his hands - Cortez thought himself an authority on wines - instead of a rat-infested barrio shack eating beans and mouthing revolutionary slogans with people whose idea of Marxism was robbing banks and making heroic taped pronouncements that the local radio stations played between the rock songs and commercials.

Yet attempts by student radicals to base a social program on a pastiche of nineteenth-century Marxism and early twentieth-century Freudianism have revealed them to be as resolutely chained to the past and present as their elders.

For Descartes it had been mind and body, for Sartre, Freudianism and Marxism, for Teilhard de Chardin, Christianity and evolution-the list could be extended, and it seemed to him that the particular quality of French philosophy, its heroic tension and its tendency to be a long march of magnificent failures, came from this repeated attempt to yoke together impossible opposites.