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Karl Johann Kautsky
Karl Johann Kautsky , 1854-1938, German-Austrian socialist, b. Prague. A leading figure in the effort to spread Marxist doctrine in Germany, he was the principal deviser of the Erfurt Program, which set the German Social Democratic party on an orthodox Marxist path and established him as a dominant ... Read more
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane , 1892-1964, British geneticist, biologist, and popularizer of science; son of John Scott Haldane . As one of the most influential scientists of the 20th cent, he studied relationships among different disciplines and problems, including the consequence of Mendelian gen... Read more
Daniel Ortega Saavedra
Daniel Ortega Saavedra , 1945-, president of Nicaragua (1979-90, 2007-). As a university student, he joined (1963) the clandestine Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN; see Sandinistas ), a Marxist guerrilla coalition that opposed the Somoza dictatorship. In 1967, he was arrested and spent ... Read more
Jules Guesde
Jules Guesde , 1845-1922, French socialist, whose original name was Basile. Exiled for his support of the Paris commune, he became a confirmed Marxist after 1876 and, with Paul Lafargue, led in advocating socialism in France and a policy of noncompromise with the existing government. Guesde was larg... Read more
Granville Hicks
Granville Hicks 1901-82, American writer, b. Exeter, N.H. A member of the Communist party, he edited The New Masses and wrote a pioneering Marxist interpretation of American literature, The Great Tradition (1933). In 1939 he resigned from the party and in the 1950s was a cooperative witness bef... Read more
Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao , 1888-1927, professor of history and librarian at Beijing Univ., cofounder of the Chinese Communist party with Chen Duxiu . He was the first important Chinese intellectual to support the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. A leader in the May Fourth Movement (1919), he organized several Ma... Read more
Mbundu
Mbundu , black African ethnic group, W Angola. The Mbundu speak Bantu languages and number about 6 million. By the late 15th cent. they had formed the Ndongo kingdom, ruled by the ngola (from which the Portuguese derived the name Angola). Beginning in the early 16th cent. Ndongo was raided for slave... Read more
Marxism
Marxism economic and political philosophy named for Karl Marx . It is also known as scientific (as opposed to utopian) socialism. Marxism has had a profound impact on contemporary culture; modern communism is based on it, and most modern socialist theories derive from it (see socialism ). It ha... Read more
liberation theology
liberation theology belief that the Christian Gospel demands "a preferential option for the poor," and that the church should be involved in the struggle for economic and political justice in the contemporary world—particularly in the Third World. Dating to the Second Vatican Council (196... Read more
Samora Moïsès Machel
Samora Moïsès Machel , 1933-86, president of Mozambique (1975-86). Machel joined the Mozambican Liberation Front (Frelimo) in 1962, led its guerrilla forces by 1968, and in 1969 became president of the organization. In 1975, Frelimo gained power in independent Mozambique without election... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Marxist"

Marxist literary criticism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Marxist literary criticism, a critical tradition...cs who eventually developed a consistent Marxist critical position, one that stressed the...Bakhtin circle. The first significant Marxist criticism in the English-speaking world...
Competition, Marxist
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Competition, Marxist The treatment of competition captures the methodological difference between the neoclassical and materialist (Marxist) approach to social and economic relations. In the former, competition is the interaction of individual...
Labor, Surplus: Marxist And Radical Economics
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Labor, Surplus: Marxist And Radical Economics The theory of capitalist accumulation devised by Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) rests upon the labor...
Pokrovsky, Mikhail Nikolayevich
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...sciences, and a principal enforcer of Marxist orthodoxy. Mikhail Pokrovsky served as...Academy and Chairman of its Society of Marxist Historians; Full Member of the Soviet...reiterated this thesis and attacked the non-Marxist historians who did not share it. Pokrovsky...
Marx, Karl: Impact on Sociology
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...capitalism ’ s rise to complement Marxist-materialist accounts. Georg Simmel...early twentieth-century Europe, Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci ( Selections from the...schooled in Germany and France) tapped into Marxist ideas for research on the sociology of...
False Consciousness
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...consciousness ” is derived from the Marxist theory of social class. The concept refers...advantage of the dominant class, according to Marxist theory. The concept of commodity fetishism...which it depends. Twentieth-century Marxist thinkers have given more systematic attention...
Lukacs, Georg
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...1885-1971 Georg Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher who was profoundly influential...Marxism, otherwise known as “ Marxist humanism. ” Instead of reading...rather existentialist conception of the Marxist project influenced the Frankfurt School...
Communist Academy
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...an array of societies revolving around groups such as the Militant Materialist Dialecticians, Marxist Historians, Marxist Orientalists, and Marxist Biologists. Structurally reminiscent of the older Academy of Sciences, the Communist Academy...
Marxism, Black
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...illuminates the theoretical gaps in the Marxist canon as it relates to non-Western movements...with the contradictions that emerge when Marxist paradigms are the medium for the articulation...challenge to the formulation of a black Marxist theory (see Robinson 1983). Whereas...
Neocolonialism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...x2019; s analysis is also more frankly Marxist than other, later critics who use the...x2019; s ideas were drawn from neo-Marxist theory and were also influenced by the...economists, also somewhat influenced by neo-Marxist ideas. The Egyptian political scientist...

Dictionary entries related to "Marxist"

Marxist sociology
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology Marxist sociology See ABSOLUTISM ; ANALYTICAL MARXISM ; ASIATIC MODE OF PRODUCTION ; CAPITAL ; CAPITALISM ; CENTRE–PERIPHERY...
Marxism: Latin America
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...domination, social inequality, and poverty. Marxist popular movements, political parties...organization. Even in countries where Marxist ideas, parties, and organizations never...ferment. Despite the insistence of many Marxist political parties and regimes on ideological...
Marxism: Asia
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...various incarnations) on the more orthodox Marxist teachings of Kautsky. But Japanese Marxism...intellectual movement. By the late 1920s, Marxist influences were dominant in the economics...a major contribution to international Marxist scholarship. The rise of militarism and...
Communism: Latin America
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...of European immigrants advocating the Marxist philosophies upon which socialist and...German, and Spanish immigrants who spread Marxist ideas throughout Latin America. This...and covert backing. Cuba added a new Marxist-Leninist "model" for Latin America...
Althusser, Louis
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...and influential of twentieth-century Marxist social philosophers, Louis Althusser...but deeply controversial renewal of Marxist scholarship across a whole range of humanities...differed sharply from many contemporary Marxist critics of Stalinism in refusing to employ...
Marxism and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...psychic processes into articulation with Marxist analysis of social processes. This line...basis for the articulation is as follows: Marxist class theory provides the tools for analyzing...and Marxism. Nevertheless, Freudian Marxist research continued after World War II...
Gramsci, Antonio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...x2013;1937) A prominent Italian Marxist theorist and noted critic of economic...his current exalted reputation amongst Marxist social scientists rests on the writings...in the debates and developments within Marxist social science during the 1970s—...
Marxism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...because it is suitably sceptical and avoids Marxist jargon. In one way the political success...strangulation of the most influential body of Marxist thought as a creative and critical enterprise...precisely what might be the specifically Marxist elements in some of these movements...
Fromm, Erich (1900-1980)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...philosophical bases of Freud's writings. As a Marxist, Fromm was shrewd in spotting the middle...Wilhelm Reich, who also tried to synthesize Marxist and Freudian principles. Fromm has his...not only strict psychoanalysts but also Marxist hardliners, who have been determined...
State, The: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Miliband identified the chief deficiency of Marxist political theory as the fact that nearly...central thesis and conceptual structure of Marxist political theory was effectively in place and therefore what Marxist political theory needed was more empirical...

Thesaurus entries related to "Marxist"

orientation
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; 2. his orientation to his new way of life synonyms : adaptation, adjustment, acclimatization.   3. broadly Marxist in orientation synonyms : attitude, inclination.   4. freshman orientation begins the week before school starts...
socialist
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...antonym: conservative. • noun  a well-known socialist synonyms : left-winger, leftist, progressive, progressivist; radical, revolutionary; communist, Marxist; informal lefty, red. antonym: conservative.
communist
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...every corner | communist countries synonyms : collectivist, leftist, (radical) socialist; Soviet, Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Marxist, Leninist, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, Maoist; informal, derogatory commie, red, lefty, Bolshie.
avowed
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus avowed • adjective  an avowed Marxist synonyms : self-confessed, self-declared, acknowledged, admitted; open, overt.
left-wing
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...committee's left-wing policies synonyms : liberal, leftist, left-of-center, left-leaning; socialist, communist; Labor/Labour, Marxist, Bolshevik; informal commie, lefty, red, pinko. antonyms: right-wing, conservative.
diffusion
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus diffusion • noun  the diffusion of Marxist ideas synonyms : spread, dissemination, scattering, dispersal, diaspora, distribution, circulation, propagation, transmission, broadcasting, promulgation.

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Marxist criticism today: The moderate views, THE INDEPENDENT
Newspaper article from: The Independent (Bangladesh); 5/12/2000; 700+ words ; ...the relative autonomy of art. However, Marxist thoughts, ideas and attitudes have been...a theory of literature and criticism. Marxist criticism distinguished itself from all...1845-46, has become a key concept in Marxist criticism of literature and other arts...
Towards an anti-racist Marxist state theory: a Canadian case study.(Case study)
Magazine article from: Capital & Class; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...capitalist state--questions that have guided Marxist theory--are as important today as they...significant advances have been made in Marxist state theory, particularly by those writing...referred to in this article as the 'Open Marxist' tradition (1), there are important...
A Thousand Marxist Economists
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/5/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...conference. URPE represents the nation's Marxist economists, and there on the business page of The Times the assembled Marxist economists are pictured, attired in...that The Times placed this picture of Marxist economists exactly adjacent to the...
Ethics and the indigenization of Marxist thought. (A Symposium on Cornel West's 'The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought')
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 6/1/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...had a special interest in reassessing Marxist thought as it applied to the North American...predominance of a particular variation of Marxist thought that failed to take seriously...Americans who had attempted to work within Marxist organizations. Consequently, the 1982...
Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Stanford Journal of International Law; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; Between Equal Rights: A Marxist Theory of International Law. By China...Mieville proposes to take a critical, Marxist approach to this overwhelmingly positive...timely. With the fall of communism, Marxist critical analysis has enjoyed a resurgence...
Marxist-reformist legacy not a hit with Indian cinema-goers?
News Wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.; 6/26/2008; 700+ words ; Marxist-reformist legacy not a hit with Indian...in their works in diverse ways but the Marxist-reformist legacy failed to impress the...alas, most of the films driven by the Marxist ideological engine did not, do not, reach...
The left academy: Marxist scholarship on American campuses.
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 1/1/1986; ; 700+ words ; ...United States; Marxisim and the results of Marxist scholarship were nowhere to be seen...1960s a core of solid and respectable Marxist scholarship developed and has held together...there is the beginning of a legitimate Marxist trend among U.S. intellectuals. It...
Do not dump the Unoites. (Unoite school of Marxist thought in Japan; reply to John Lie, includes John Lie's response)
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 1/1/1988; ; 700+ words ; ...blanket condemnations of the Uno school of Marxist thought. Several points need to be made...be a very good one, nor a particularly Marxist, nor particularly Unoian analysis. Baba...economy does not thereby discredit all of Marxist or Uno Marxist theory. A Marxist in general...
Rethinking Marxism: struggles in Marxist theory. Essays for Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy.
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 2/1/1987; ; 700+ words ; Rethinking Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory. Essays for Harry Magdoff and...In Rethinking Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff...brought together an impressive array of Marxist intellectuals from around the world to...
The colonial criticism of Jose Rabasa: a Marxist critique.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...with which the self-proclaimed post-Marxist, of recent vintage, says goodbye to...mind--had a fraught relationship with Marxist ideas. But even those such as Michel...found it much easier to relinquish the Marxist legacy. Symptomatic in this respect is...