Marxize

English

Alternative forms

• Marxise

Etymology

Marx +‎ -ize

Verb

Marxize (third-person singular simple present Marxizes, present participle Marxizing, simple past and past participle Marxized)

1. To become or cause to become Marxist.
   • 1971, Edward Herbert Dance, History for a united world, page 69:

     At that time parts of India were 'covered with republican constitutions', and in fact there is a strong tendency among modern Indian historians to Marxize their early history, and to fit it into the conventional Marxist categories of struggling peasantries, selfish bourgeoisies, oppressive capitalists, and class warfare.

   • 1985, James B. McGinnis, Solidarity with the people of Nicaragua, page 61:

     The archbishop went further in his characterization of the Antonio Valdivieso Center (CAV) and two other Christian education and research institutes: "they are trying to 'Marxize' the people."

   • 1986, The World & I. - Volume 1, Issue 4; Volume 1, Issues 7-8, page 638:

     There is in Central America—or so I believe after four recent visits—a great apprehansion that in the wake of Vietnam the United States is no longer resolved to protect its own security or sovereign borders; that the Soviet Union and its proconsuls in Cuba and Nicaragua are determined to Marxize the region and cut the hemisphere in two; and that the consolidation of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua would be followed inexorably by the collapse of both Central America and Mexico to the revolutionary Left, all the way to the northern Mexican border.

   • 1991, Malachi Martin, Keys of This Blood:

     What was essential, insisted Gramsci, was to Marxize the inner man.

Related terms

• marxisant