3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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that historical change occurs through class struggle; and that the capitalist system will inevitably wither away to be superseded by a classless society. [PJC] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: 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determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded by communism From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 55 Moby Thesaurus words for "Marxism": Bolshevism, Castroism, Communist Information Bureau,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
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