Marxism
pronunciation
How to pronounce Marxism in British English:
UK [ˈmɑ:ksɪzəm]
How to pronounce Marxism in American English:
US [ˈmɑrksɪzəm]
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- 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 untimately be supersed
Word Origin
- Marxism (n.)
- 1885, probably immediately from French marxisme; see Marxist + -ism. From 1884 as Karl Marxism.
Example
- 1. Marxism was just the most important alternative ideology of modernity .