Marxist

Example Sentences

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It’s the protective sense of a hedge that Alfred Winslow Jones, the former Marxist sociologist who coined the modern term “hedged fund” in 1949, had in mind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

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

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

She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war with an impossible, incurable Romantic—who forgot the candles, who broke the wineglasses, who lost the ring.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy