The DICT Development Group

  Marxism \Marx"ism\, prop. n.
     A system of economic and political thought, originated by
     Karl Marx, and elaborated by others. It holds that the state
     has been the a device for suppression of the masses, allowing
     exploitation by a dominant (capitalistic) class; that
     historical change occurs through class struggle; and that the
     capitalist system will inevitably wither away to be
     superseded by a classless society.
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  Marxism
       n : 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           capitalism will untimately be superseded by communism

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "Marxism":
     Bolshevism, Castroism, Communist Information Bureau,
     Communist Party, Fabian socialism, Fabianism, Maoism,
     Marxian socialism, Marxism-Leninism, Saint-Simonism, Stalinism,
     Titoism, Trotskyism, animalism, atomism, behaviorism,
     collective ownership, collectivism, commonsense realism, communism,
     democratic centralism, dialectical materialism, earthliness,
     empiricism, epiphenomenalism, guild socialism,
     historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism,
     iron curtain, materialism, mechanism, nationalization,
     natural realism, naturalism, new realism, phalansterism,
     physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy, positivism,
     pragmaticism, pragmatism, public ownership, realism,
     representative realism, revisionism, secularism, socialism,
     state socialism, substantialism, temporality, utopian socialism,
     worldliness