Marxism

Marxism
    n 1: 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         capitalism will ultimately be superseded by communism
    

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   superseded by a classless society.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]
    

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