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Marxization en · NOUN

Etymology

From Marxize + -ation.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The process of Marxizing; conversion to Marxism or a Marxist interpretation.
   • Hence the tendency common to all the diverse philosophical interpretations of Marx – their common negation, in the context of which the borderline between Marxology and Marxization and between Marxization and revisionism, between ultra-revolutionary and reformist interpretations, becomes no more than relative. 1970, World Marxist Review - Volume 13, Issues 7-12, page 99:
   • As John Paul knows, Gorbachev's goal is a geopolitical structure corresponding to the Leninist ideal: the Marxization of the entire Eurasian landmass from the Atlantic to the China Sea as the first step, then the Marxization of the Western Hemisphere. 1990, Malachi Martin, The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West, page 455:
   • Since a German Communist state existed, a state peaceful and democratic by definition, it became more difficult to speak of crimes committed by Germans in general. Poles were confronted with a kind of "Marxization" of the German problem that had to be resolved in terms of classes: in the east were the good Germans because they were progressive; in the west, the bad Germans, reactionaries, heirs of Nazism, even more-or-less camouflaged Hitlerians. 2004, Henry Rousso, Richard Joseph Golsan, Stalinism and Nazism: history and memory compared, page 247:

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