Marxise

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A form of Marxize — To become or cause to become Marxist.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbMarxise (third-person singular simple present Marxises, present participle Marxising, simple past and past participle Marxised)

present singular third person Marxises · participle present Marxising · participle past Marxised · past Marxised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Marxize.

    even after the furore caused by History and Class Consciousness Lukács continued to draw on Hegel for inspiration, although he felt compelled to 'Marxise' him in order to placate the Soviet authorities.

    2013, Stuart Sim, Post-Marxism: An Intellectual History
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    In 1995 'Immara launched a strong attack against the Marxist interpretation of Islam condemning the works of al-Tayyib Tizini, Husayn Muruwa, and Mahmud Isma'il's sociological studies on the revolutionary aspects of Islam as raw and negative attempts to “Marxise" Islam ('Immara 1995c:198-204) and all thinking that "molds religion in atheistic forms and buries the spirit in the tomb of matter" (ibid. 199).

    2000, Dave Hill, Enid Hill, Discourses in Contemporary Egypt, page 109

    On the quaintness of Thomson's attempts to Marxise textual criticism, cf. Timpanaro (1976) 39. Housman's 1911 Cambridge Inaugural (= Housman (1969)) stands as an (almost) contemporary critique of attempts to make textual criticism into a 'science'.

    2005, Christopher Stray, The Owl of Minerva, page 74
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