marxoid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having Marxist influences, but not truly Marxist.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more Marxoid (comparative)
most Marxoid (superlative)