'Marxism' definitions:
Definition of 'Marxism'
(from WordNet)
noun
The economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism
Definition of 'Marxism'
From: GCIDE
- Marxism \Marx"ism\, prop. n. A system of economic and political thought, originated by Karl Marx, and elaborated by others. It holds that the state has been the a device for suppression of the masses, allowing exploitation by a dominant (capitalistic) class; that historical change occurs through class struggle; and that the capitalist system will inevitably wither away to be superseded by a classless society. [PJC]
Synonyms of 'Marxism'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- animalism,
- atomism,
- behaviorism,
- Bolshevism,
- Castroism,
- collective ownership,
- collectivism,
- commonsense realism,
- communism,
- Communist Information Bureau,
- Communist Party,
- democratic centralism,
- dialectical materialism,
- earthliness,
- empiricism,
- epiphenomenalism,
- Fabian socialism,
- Fabianism,
- guild socialism,
- historical materialism,
- hylomorphism,
- hylotheism,
- hylozoism,
- iron curtain,
- Maoism,
- Marxian socialism,
- Marxism-Leninism,
- materialism,
- mechanism,
- nationalization,
- natural realism,
- naturalism,
- new realism,
- phalansterism,
- physicalism,
- physicism,
- positive philosophy,
- positivism,
- pragmaticism,
- pragmatism,
- public ownership,
- realism,
- representative realism,
- revisionism,
- Saint-Simonism,
- secularism,
- socialism,
- Stalinism,
- state socialism,
- substantialism,
- temporality,
- Titoism,
- Trotskyism,
- utopian socialism,
- worldliness