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Marxist

Definitions: Marxist

Marxist

Adjective

1. Following the ideas of Marx and Engels.

Noun

1. An advocate of Marxism.

2. Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Marxist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1930. (references)

Synonyms: Marxist

Synonyms: bolshie (n), pinko (n), red (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Marxist

English words defined with "Marxist": bourgeoisdogmaHaldaneJ. B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldaneorientationpredilection, preferenceSocial Democratic Party. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Marxist" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (marxist), Romanian (marxian, marxist).

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Modern Usage: Marxist

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Last Marxist (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Marxist

DomainTitle

Books

  • Mind in the World: The Marxist Psychology of Self-Actualization (Studies in Marxism, Vol. 26) (reference)

  • The Marxist Theory of Alienation (reference)

  • Invisible Leviathan: The Marxist Critique of Market Despotism Beyond Postmodernism (The State and Economic Life ; 19) (reference)

  • Marxist Political Economy and Marxist Urban Sociology: A Review and Elaboration of Recent Developments (reference)

  • Marxist Aesthetics: The Foundations Within Everyday Life for an Emancipated Consciousness (reference)

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Marxist

AuthorQuotation

Friedrich Engels

Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late `seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist."

Karl Marx

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Marxist

SubjectTopicQuote

Children

Cuba

Education is free, but it is grounded in Marxist ideology. (references)

Civil Liberties

India

The alleged assailants were state information officers, government employees owing allegiance to the Marxist government. (references)

Economic History

Chile

In the 1920s, Marxist groups with strong popular support arose. (references)

Human Rights

Turkey

Operations against Marxist TIKKO guerillas, mostly in the east, resulted in a number of reported deaths of alleged TIKKO operatives. (references)

Political Economy

Finland

Despite its Marxist origin a hundred years ago, the modern SDP is supportive of the market economy and individual rights. (references)

Ethiopia

The Government's Special Prosecutor's Office (SPO) continued to conduct the trials of persons accused of committing crimes under the Marxist regime (1974-91) of Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Marxist

"Marxist" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 86.52% of the time. "Marxist" is used about 659 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)86.52%57011,057
Noun (singular)13.18%8735,390
Noun (proper)0.3%2245,945
                    Total100.00%659N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Marxist

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "Marxist": marxist-based, marxist-dominated, marxist-existentialism, marxist-feminist, marxist-feminists, marxist-gramscian, marxist-hegelian, marxist-inclined, marxist-inflected, marxist-inspired, Marxist-leninism, Marxist-Leninist, marxist-leninist-maoist, Marxist-leninists, marxist-nationalist, marxist-oriented, marxist-structuralist, marxist-trotskyist.

Ending with "Marxist": anti-marxist, neo-marxist, non-marxist, philippines-marxist, post-marxist, quasi-marxist.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Marxist

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
  ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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23

  communism communist congress council east ed edolphus iran iran iraq israel marxist middle mojahedin national people resistance town

3

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22

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3

  criticism marxist

8

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3

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4

  archive internet marxist

2

  feminism marxist

4

  marxist literary theory

2

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4

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2

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4

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2

  criticism essay marxist

4

  criticism literary marxist

2

  criminology marxist

3

  classical feminism marxist

2

  christian communism communist cult maoist marxist radical socialist terror utopia

3

  criticism feminism marxist

2

  communism communist conservative east iran iraq leon marxist middle neo socialism socialist trotsky

3

  audio cliff google marxist search tony

2

  humanism marxist

3

  communist india marxist party

2

  communist council east iran iraq israel marvin marxist middle mojahedin national republican resistance socialist terrorism zonis

3

  hawaiian marxist sovereignty

2

  ackerman communism communist congress council east gary iran iran iraq israel marxist middle mojahedin national people resistance

3

  economics marxist

2

  communist council dave david durenberger east iran iran iraq israel marxist middle mojahedin national people resistance senator

3

  feminist marxist

2

  canada leninist marxist party

3

  marxist perspective

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Marxist

Language Translations for "Marxist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مصدق الماركسية, ‏مؤمن بالماركسية. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

марксистки (marxian), марксист (marxian). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

马克思主义者. (various references)

   

Czech

  

marxista. (various references)

   

French

  

marxiste. (various references)

   

German

  

marxist. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαρξιστήσ. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

marxista (marxian). (various references)

   

Italian

  

marxista (marxian). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

マラリア蚊 (malaria mosquito, Marie, marihuana, marijuana, marimba, marina, marinade, marine, marine beef, marine blue, marine look, marine ranching, marine snow, marine tower, marionette, Marisat, mark, marriage counselor, Marx, Marxism, Mary, ultramarine). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

マルキスト , マルキシスト . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

마르크스주의자. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

arxistmay

   

Portuguese

  

marxismo. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

marxist (marxian). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

марксист марксистский. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

marksistički (marxian), marksista (marxian). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

marxista (marxian). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

marksist. (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

marksistik (r). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

Mác-xít (marxian), người theo chủ nghĩa Mác (marxian). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Marxist

Misspellings

"Marxist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: marxiste, Mirista. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Marxist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-m-r-s-t-x"

-1 letter: mastix, matrix.

-2 letters: airts, amirs, astir, mairs, maist, marts, maxis, simar, sitar, smart, stair, stria, tamis, tarsi, taxis, trams, trims.

-3 letters: aims, airs, airt, aits, amir, amis, arms, arts, axis, mair, mars, mart, mast, mats, maxi, mirs, mist, mixt, rami, rams, rats, rias, rims, sari, sati, sima, smit, star, stir, tams, tars, taxi.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-m-r-s-t-x"
 

+1 letter: matrixes.

 

+3 letters: admixtures, taximeters.

 

+4 letters: axisymmetry, externalism, mediatrixes, taxidermies, taxidermist, thermotaxis.

 

+5 letters: ambidextrous, approximates, axisymmetric, dominatrixes, expatriatism, exterminates, externalisms, extramusical, taxidermists.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Marxist


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 61 72 78 69 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100001 01110010 01111000 01101001 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#97 &#114 &#120 &#105 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0061 0072 0078 0069 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47678490758586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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