History glossary
Marxists
people or movements influenced by Karl Marx's ideas about class, capitalism, and socialism.
- Category
- Political ideology
- Region
- Global
- Date range
- from the nineteenth century
What it means
Marxists are people or movements influenced by Karl Marx's critique of capitalism and his ideas about class conflict, socialism, and revolution. In Weimar Germany the term could describe socialists and communists, but Nazi propaganda also used it loosely as an enemy label for the political left.
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