Noun
the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism
Source: WordNetMarxism is the opium of the intellectuals. Edmund Wilson
Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate. Camille Paglia
Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical. Ernest Mandel
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International. James P. Cannon
At the bottom of at least popular Marxism there has always been a kind of disgust with humanity as it is and a perfect faith in humanity as it is to be. Lionel Trilling
Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is. Bob Black