Marcyite

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noun

A supporter or follower of Sam Marcy (1911–1998), American lawyer, writer, and Marxist-Leninist activist who co-founded the Workers World Party (WWP).

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Meanings

nounMarcyite (plural Marcyites)

plural Marcyites

  1. MarxismA supporter or follower of Sam Marcy (1911–1998), American lawyer, writer, and Marxist-Leninist activist who co-founded the Workers World Party (WWP).

    His attempt to maintain a revolutionary proletarian orientation without the struggle for the Fourth International ended in a fiasco, as the present political role of the Marcyites as semi-official advisers of the trade union bureaucracy proves.

    1988, David North, “The SWP in Retreat”, in The Heritage We Defend: A Contribution to the History of the Fourth International, Detroit, MI: Labor Publications, →ISBN, page 281

Origin

From Marcy + -ite.

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