Marxoid

English

Etymology

Marx +‎ -oid

Adjective

Marxoid (comparative more Marxoid, superlative most Marxoid)

1. Having Marxist influences, but not truly Marxist.
   • 1983, Law and politics in Aztec Texcoco, page xiv:

     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.

   • 1997, Robert Wilson, The Illuminati Papers, page 31:

     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.

   • 2014, Frederic L. Pryor, The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivized Agriculture in Marxist Regimes:

     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.

   • 2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 3, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN:

     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.