Marxist

Example Sentences

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In 1983 the US invaded the Caribbean island of Grenada, after a Marxist coup.

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

Chávez, a former army officer inspired by Marxist thinkers and revolutionaries such as Simón Bolivar and Fidel Castro, was one of the most consequential political figures in recent Latin American history.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

Her father, Jorge Antonio Rodríguez, was a Marxist guerrilla and co-founder of the Socialist League, a militant leftist movement active in the 1960s and 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 4, 2026

I first encountered his name, in fact, in a 1970s biography of the Irish revolutionary Liam Mellows by Marxist historian Desmond Greaves, who mentions Hillquit several times without bothering to explain who he was.

From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025

Laski was a prominent politician and the leading socialist intellectual of the day; he was enough of a Marxist to have a taste for the word ‘revolution’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton