How to Use Marxism in a Sentence

Marxism

noun
  • There’s a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party.
    — ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • There's a rise of Marxism in the Democratic Party.
    — Nicholas Kerr, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
  • In the film, Sonny’s furious tinpot Marxism is part of his skewed reality.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Our lovers meditate at length on utopia, and have lively arguments about the practicalities of Marxism.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Russia is now propelled by not Marxism but nationalism under the two-beamed cross of Orthodoxy.
    — Josef Joffe, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
  • On theoretical grounds, on moral grounds, on real world grounds, socialism, communism and Marxism are total busts.
    — Sal Rodriguez, Oc Register, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Mahmood’s work focuses on settler colonialism and human rights, as well as Marxism and the history of war and genocide in Africa.
    — Makena Gera, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Inigo Fraser Jenkins once warned that passive investing was worse for society than Marxism.
    — Denitsa Tsekova, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Weyman wanted to determine whether Sweezy had advocated for Marxism or said that socialism was inevitable in the country.
    — Laura Gail Miller, The Conversation, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For many Jewish immigrants in the United States, Marxism would, in the twentieth century, replace Judaism as a common faith.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Over time, the congress fostered a transnational network of culturally influential elites who favored liberal democracy over communism and Marxism.
    — Tetiana Kotelnykova, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This form evolved in the 20th century to address Marxism, fascism and class struggle, challenging traditional narratives through activism and experimental techniques.
    — Jane M. Saks, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The group is seen by many Iranians as a cult whose eclectic ideology, which mixes Islam and Marxism, is easily as unpalatable as the Islamic Republic’s.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Sandinista ideology blended Marxism, liberalism, and nationalism, borrowing ideas from both sides of the Iron Curtain.
    — Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 8 Oct. 2025
  • In his first feature, Kiluanji Kia Henda imagines the return of Marxism to Angola through public debate, urban interventions and personal stories.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 23 Apr. 2026
  • And yet—there is also the Ginsberg who went to Cuba in 1965 to agitate for gay liberation against the homophobic Castro regime, where despite the poet’s own (kind of) Marxism he was expelled.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • Walter, who had left the Progressive Labor Party, didn’t preach Marxism to his son, but Riley embraced a radical-left viewpoint on his own, after tagging along with some cute older girls who were participating in a cannery workers’ strike.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • Cosmists who believed in technology as a messianic force clashed not just with the Svyatogor camp, but also with the communists, whose guiding ideology of Marxism-Leninism was predicated on the dismantling of age-old social systems to establish a novel world order.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form (Princeton University Press, 1974), 103, 105.
    — Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Mar. 2026
  • By the early post-World War II period, the demographic cohort most likely to rebel against authority—namely, youth—had been molded by Soviet institutions in which the revolutionary teachings of Marxism-Leninism had achieved the status of sacred canon.
    — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • During Joseph Stalin’s final years in power, and continuing into Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw, no worldview, no way of thinking, no set of texts contributed more to oppositional activity in the Soviet Union than those of Marxism-Leninism.
    — Benjamin Nathans september 24, Literary Hub, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The Communist Revolution, rooted in the Western ideology of Marxism-Leninism imported from Europe, advocated a total rejection of native, Imperial-era customs and social structures.
    — Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 17 Nov. 2025

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