Marxoid

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English

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Etymology

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From Marx +‎ -oid.

Adjective

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Marxoid (comparative more Marxoid, superlative most Marxoid)

  1. Having Marxist influences, but not truly Marxist.
    • 1983, Law and politics in Aztec Texcoco, page xiv:
      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.
    • 1997, Robert Wilson, The Illuminati Papers, page 31:
      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.
    • 2014, Frederic L. Pryor, The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivized Agriculture in Marxist Regimes:
      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.
    • 2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 3, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN:
      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.