Marx

[ mahrks; German mahrks ]

noun

1. Karl (Hein·rich) [kahrl , hahyn, -rik, kah, r, l , hahyn, -, r, i, kh], 1818–83, German economist, philosopher, and socialist.

Marx

/ mɑːks /

noun

1. MarxKarl18181883MGermanPOLITICS: communistPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Karl (karl). 1818–83, German founder of modern communism, in England from 1849. With Engels, he wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848). He developed his theories of the class struggle and the economics of capitalism in Das Kapital (1867; 1885; 1895). He was one of the founders of the International Workingmen's Association (First International) (1864)

Example Sentences

Marx earlier reported on the existence of the little-known regional law enforcement working group that receives federal funding for police gear.

From Voice of San Diego

In 2020, we learned from Marx’s reporting that the project was funded in part with federal anti-poverty dollars and that it wasn’t producing environmental and traffic data as promised.

From Voice of San Diego

She also read Marx, and her associations with all of these far-left groups landed her on the radar of the FBI, which monitored her for ties to the Communist Party.

From Time

“When it comes to the terms Faulconer set for himself on policing and public safety — predominantly hiring, pay and retention, which were seen as worthy causes at the time even among progressives — he was largely successful,” Marx writes.

From Voice of San Diego

As Marx reported, a Gaspar loss means not one, but two of Ikhrata’s chief critics would no longer be on the board.

From Voice of San Diego

Neither Smith nor Marx can carry us far into the guts of globalized financial capitalism.

From The Daily Beast

Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.

From The Daily Beast

He began, he recalls, by setting forth a cockeyed premise: the Marx brothers selling modern art.

From The Daily Beast

It was the end of history, all right—just not the one Marx and his mid-century champions had expected.

From The Daily Beast

A choice Johnson says he made channeling a Harpo Marx type character, and not a “mysterious Oriental.”

From The Daily Beast

He had tried to make it a political, revolutionary society; and when he found himself defeated by Marx' opposition, he retired.

From Project Gutenberg

While with him moral and spiritual phenomena are the fundamental facts, Marx builds his system on material phenomena.

From Project Gutenberg

Marx deduced from his economic studies a confident and detailed prophecy of economic development.

From Project Gutenberg

Fourier with his phalansteries is quite forgotten, his place being taken by Marx.

From Project Gutenberg

This is the discovery of Karl Marx which is known as the scientific or materialistic interpretation of history.

From Project Gutenberg