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Marxoid en · ADJ

Etymology

From Marx + -oid.

Meanings

1. Having Marxist influences, but not truly Marxist.
   • The Aztecs have been “shown" to have been at one or another stage of various Marxoid evolutionary schemes by writers ostensibly using the same body of evidence. 1983, Law and politics in Aztec Texcoco, page xiv:
   • Of all the Marxian and Marxoid schools of thought, Gramsci's is perhaps the most influential today, placing media and culture at the center of political analysis and praxis in a mediated age after the decline of the old labour movement. 2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 3, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN:
   • I label these ideas “Marxoid,” because, although they were allegedly derived from Marx, they required additional assumptions; indeed, such Marxoid arguments might also be refuted with other arguments drawn from Marx. 2014, Frederic L. Pryor, The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivized Agriculture in Marxist Regimes:
   • Farrell wasn't as good as the liberal-Marxoid critics of the '30s claimed, but he is good enough not to deserve the oblivion that has fallen upon him. 1997, Robert Wilson, The Illuminati Papers, page 31:

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