Marxization

English

Alternative forms

• Marxisation

Etymology

Marxize +‎ -ation

Noun

Marxization (uncountable)

1. The process of Marxizing; conversion to Marxism or a Marxist interpretation.
   • 1970, World Marxist Review - Volume 13, Issues 7-12, page 99:

     Hence the tendency common to all the diverse philosophical interpretations of Marx – their common negation, in the context of which the borderline between Marxology and Marxization and between Marxization and revisionism, between ultra-revolutionary and reformist interpretations, becomes no more than relative.

   • 1990, Malachi Martin, The Keys of This Blood: The Struggle for World Dominion Between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West, page 455:

     As John Paul knows, Gorbachev's goal is a geopolitical structure corresponding to the Leninist ideal: the Marxization of the entire Eurasian landmass from the Atlantic to the China Sea as the first step, then the Marxization of the Western Hemisphere.

   • 2004, Henry Rousso, Richard Joseph Golsan, Stalinism and Nazism: history and memory compared, page 247:

     Since a German Communist state existed, a state peaceful and democratic by definition, it became more difficult to speak of crimes committed by Germans in general. Poles were confronted with a kind of "Marxization" of the German problem that had to be resolved in terms of classes: in the east were the good Germans because they were progressive; in the west, the bad Germans, reactionaries, heirs of Nazism, even more-or-less camouflaged Hitlerians.