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MARXIST

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

Synonyms:

Bolshevik; bolshie; bolshy; Marxist; red

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Marxist" is a kind of...):

radical (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An advocate of Marxism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Marxist" is a kind of...):

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Derivation:

Marxism (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determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Following the ideas of Marx and Engels

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Marxism (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determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism)

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