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Marxism

Marxism is the theory of Karl Marx which says that society's classes are the cause of struggle and that society should have no classes. (noun)

An example of Marxism is replacing private ownership with co-operative ownership.

See Marxism in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

the system of thought developed by Karl Marx, his co-worker Friedrich Engels, and their followers

also Marxianism

Related Forms:

Marxist adjective, noun or Marxian

See Marxism in American Heritage Dictionary 4

(märkˈsĭzˌəm)

noun

The political and economic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in which the concept of class struggle plays a central role in understanding society's allegedly inevitable development from bourgeois oppression under capitalism to a socialist and ultimately classless society.

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