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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

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Marxist literary criticism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...eventually developed a consistent Marxist critical position, one that...circle. The first significant Marxist criticism in the English...class struggle. The German Marxists Benjamin and Brecht provided...brought about alliances among Marxist, formalist , and post- structuralist...
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...
Economism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...though, these economist Marxists were willing to follow worker...intelligentsia by scientific Marxists such as Georgy Plekhanov and...critical of the more radical Marxists. The economists also sponsored...leading German revisionist Marxist Eduard Bernstein (1850...
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...
Marxism, Black
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...theoretical gaps in the Marxist canon as it relates...nationalism, and race. Black Marxists have grappled with the...contradictions that emerge when Marxist paradigms are the medium...argued against the Marxist position that the...Collaborations between Marxists and black radicals in...
Louis Althusser
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...many others embraced Marxist ideologies. During...the 1960s. While many Marxists were looking for a more...comprehensive and intricate Marxist model for society as...degenerations of the Marxist system under Stalin...experience reminded Marxists that "contradictions...
Mandel, Ernest
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...including such major works as Marxist Economic Theory (1968...and Power and Money: A Marxist Theory of Bureaucracy (1992...theory of long waves. Non-Marxists sometimes criticized Mandel for allowing his dedication to Marxist orthodoxy to constrain an otherwise...
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...

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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 ...Even in countries where Marxist ideas, parties, and organizations...Despite the insistence of many Marxist political parties and regimes...reflected in how Latin American Marxists tell their own history. Although Marxist parties and popular organizations...
Marxism: Asia
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...movement. By the late 1920s, Marxist influences were dominant in...contribution to international Marxist scholarship. The rise of militarism...to the wholesale jailing of Marxists and the virtual total suppression...the fascist regime in 1945, Marxist intellectual and political...
Communism: Latin America
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...backing. Cuba added a new Marxist-Leninist "model" for Latin...democratically elected, but Marxist, Salvador Allende in an attempt...a decade. In Nicaragua, a Marxist guerrilla movement known as...democratized since the 1970s, the Marxists did not win a majority of the...
Marxism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...found in C. Wright Mills , The Marxists (1962) , which offers an...suitably sceptical and avoids Marxist jargon. In one way the political...the most influential body of Marxist thought as a creative and critical...what might be the specifically Marxist elements in some of these movements...
labour theory of value
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...most other aspects of Marxist doctrine this particular...economists but also many Marxists themselves have demonstrated...labour and prices in Marxist economics has proved...Conversely, some Marxists have argued that the...unnecessary, since a useful Marxist analysis of the exploitative...
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...
The Postcolonial State
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...Structural Functionalism to Marxist Structuralism In the...greater interest to Marxists. The chief merit of...superstructure that characterized Marxist structuralism, but...considerable debate amongst Marxist Africanists. This included...similar vein. Many Marxists are of the view that...
bourgeoisie
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...class, especially amongst Marxists. Current usage refers to the...slightly dated. Among non-Marxists, the applicability of the...1976 ). The response of Marxists, and those that agree with...The second thrust of the Marxist response to arguments about...
absolutism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...capitalism.) By comparison, Marxists have (at least until relatively...History , 1923) and non-Marxist scholars more generally, the...societies. The response of Marxists (such as Maurice Dobb, Eric...the tendency amongst non-Marxists to accord a priori analytical...

Thesaurus entries related to "Marxist"

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.
doctrinaire
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus doctrinaire • adjective  doctrinaire Marxists synonyms : dogmatic, rigid, inflexible, uncompromising; authoritarian, intolerant, fanatical, zealous, extreme.
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.
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.
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...
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.

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Marxist criticism today: The moderate views, THE INDEPENDENT
Newspaper article from: The Independent (Bangladesh); 5/12/2000; 700+ words ; ...most widely influential of Marxist critics. He developed the...disciple Lucien Goldmann, Marxist and structuralist themes are...Frankfurt school' of German Marxists whose chief spirits were Theodor...view to him and was, as a Marxist, interested in mass culture...
Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way. (Reviews/Comptes Rendus).
Magazine article from: Labour/Le Travail; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Clarion. Campbell's claim that Marxists of the third way bequeathed a distinct body of Marxist t heory poses a number of questions...Labriola liberated these Canadian Marxists from the thrall of a doctrine that...
Towards an anti-racist Marxist state theory: a Canadian case study.(Case study)
Magazine article from: Capital & Class; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...hopes of further advancing a Marxist theory of the state that better...meaningful anti-racist analysis in Marxist state-theory literature is...their debates on state theory, Marxists typically treat capitalist...we have to look outside the Marxist tradition, to Goldberg's...
The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 3/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...historical study of generally overlooked Marxist theorists. Focusing primarily on the...textual exegesis of the work of major Marxist figures (in particular, John Lewis...that existed between the development of Marxist theory in Britain and the fortunes of...
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 ; ...about the Uno school of Marxists until more of their...concerning various aspects of Marxist thought. As their work...reading and reception from Marxists; this is especially...article that the level of Marxist analysis in the United...entire school of Japanese Marxists with such broad ...
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...
Sri Lankan Marxist party pledges conditional support for ruling party candidate
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 9/5/2005; ; 549 words ; ...Rajapakse invited the Marxists for talks. The Marxists wield considerable...contested race. The top Marxist leader, Somawansa...had agreed with the Marxists on all points and the...But hours after the Marxist's public announcement...
Marxists adjust to capitalist world Seek silver lining in fall of Kremlin
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/14/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...only way to describe the 500 Marxist scholars and activists gathered...a new opportunity for purer Marxist theories to thrive, in academia...Revolutionary newsletters and Marxist analyses of the Gulf War...there are exponentially more Marxists on college campuses than in...
'CIA-backed' program embarrasses Kerala Marxists
Newspaper article from: India Abroad; 7/18/2003; ; 656 words ; ...an embarrassment the Marxists will not forget in a...development program an earlier Marxist government implemented...charges as "a blot on the Marxists." "They have been...lapped up by several Marxist organizations." Hassan...program have come from Marxists themselves." Article...
Rethinking Marxism: struggles in Marxist theory. Essays for Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy.
Magazine article from: Monthly Review; 2/1/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory. Essays for...admired and beloved Marxists in the American left...Marxism: Struggles in Marxist Theory, Stephen Resnick...outside itself. Instead, Marxists should claim that theories...essentialist. The badge of Marxist sophistication is that...