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Recent Examples of Marxism
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.
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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
Opponents scoffed at many of his ideas, calling them impractical or misguided, perhaps bordering on Marxism.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
As purported truth-tellers seeking to advance society toward maximal gains, Great Men expose and combat political and existential threats, such as critical race theory and Marxism.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
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
Opponents scoffed at many of his ideas, calling them impractical or misguided, perhaps bordering on Marxism.
—Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
As purported truth-tellers seeking to advance society toward maximal gains, Great Men expose and combat political and existential threats, such as critical race theory and Marxism.
—Brady Brickner-Wood, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Marxism
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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
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In emphasizing the importance of the group, Volkov is in line with Soviet propaganda and thought, where stories of friendship were used to promote unity and collectivism.—
Christin Bohnke,
JSTOR Daily,
5 Mar. 2025
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In summary, Chinese culture strongly influences workers in manufacturing, fostering values of respect for authority, dedication, and collectivism while also contributing to long working hours and a focus on family and societal obligations.—
Dave Evans,
Forbes,
26 Nov. 2024
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New York’s benevolent liberalism of the Rockefeller years comes off as top-down benevolence, sociological benevolence, experience-free benevolence.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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In the mid-twentieth century, however, liberalism began to predominate to such an extent that republicanism, and its concern with the civic consequences of economic choices, largely faded from view.—
Jennifer M. Harris,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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