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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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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
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Together, these men of the world and men of the cloth engineered a spiritual revival designed to shake Americans free from creeping collectivism.—
James Morone,
Foreign Affairs,
16 June 2015
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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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But his defense of liberalism, which rejects considerations of what anyone deserves, is in some ways more radical than many flashier schools of thought.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
15 July 2025
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But no voter was making their 2028 decisions yet, and some South Carolina Democrats were acutely aware that Newsom epitomizes the liberalism that southern Republicans use as a foil.—
David Weigel,
semafor.com,
10 July 2025
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“Marxism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Marxism. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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