Marxism

in a sentence

One too marry of them had taken up Marxism and the workers, and accused him of grinding the peasants.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Then he crossed his ankles on the table and mumbled that it was someone who believed in Karl Marxist.†  (source) Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, 2007

So far all Granmère has taught me is how to sit; how to dress; how to use a fish fork; how to address senior members of the royal household staff; how to say thank you so much and no, I don't care for that, in seven languages; how to make a Sidecar; and some Marxist theory.†  (source) Meg Cabot, The Princess Diaries, 2000

The leader of this coalition was a man named Laurent-Désiré Kabila, a former Marxist rebel who had been educated in France and was, until his rapid ascension to power, a relative unknown in Congo.†  (source) Warren St. John, Outcasts United, 2009

Marxism.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

I merely gave Leah the very sensible advice that she should think twice about going to Angola because the Marxists are taking it over.†  (source) Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

But I'm no Marxist; we Fifths have a practical program.†  (source) Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, 1966

On the other hand, we must be wary of identifying everything that calls itself Marxism with Marx's own thinking.†  (source) Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World, 1991

-even though the data in the comiog insisted that the dropship of seventy colonists who had crashed on this plateau four hundred years ago had held only Neo-Kerwin Marxists, all of whom should have been indifferent if not openly hostile to the old religions.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

First of all, there was a scroll of paper twenty yards long—one page pasted to another—which had drawings depicting the history of the human race from a Marxist point of view.†  (source) Richard Wright, Black Boy, 1945

It was a religion, and as he grew older Marko learned that Marxism-Leninism was a jealous god, tolerating no competing loyalties.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

We're not Marxists, we're nothing.†  (source) John Le Carre, The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, 1963

[Note 1, below] The jargon peculiar to Marxist writing (HYENA, HANGMAN, CANNIBAL, PETTY BOURGEOIS, THESE GENTRY, LACKEY, FLUNKEY, MAD DOG, WHITE GUARD, etc.) consists largely of words and phrases translated from Russian, German or French; but the normal way of coining a new word is to use a Latin or Greek root with the appropriate affix and, where necessary, the '—ize' formation†  (source) George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, 1946