Marxoidadj.n.
/ˈmɑːksɔɪd/, U.S. /ˈmɑrkˌsɔɪd/ A. adj.
Following or advocating Marxism, esp. (depreciative) on the basis of a superficial understanding or uncritical interpretation of Marx's works. Cf. Marxist adj.1
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > [adjective] > relating to Marxism > spuriously Marxist
pseudo-Marxist1917
Marxoid1946
1946 L. Spitzer in Mod. Lang. Notes 61 502 One seems to hear the familiar ring of Marxoid arguments.
1966 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 60 622/1 The party had begun as a revolutionary Marxoid group, strongly anti-Yankee and prepared to use violence.
1973 D. Martin Tracts against Times i. 9 Its anarchistic, pacifistic, Marxoid fringe.
1995 National Rev. (Electronic ed.) 31 Dec. He saw literature..displaced by..epistemological squabbles, Marxoid reinterpretation, psychobabble..and sexual perversion.
B. n.
A proponent of a simplistic or superficial form of Marxism.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > putting forward for discussion > [noun] > one who puts forward
purposer1481
propounder1561
proponerc1580
proposer1585
proponent1588
mover1604
Marxoid1987
1987 Amer. Ethnol. 14 782/1 Surplus production and production modes predict the formal legal systems and their particular qualities across societies. Marxoids among us can sit back and smile contentedly.
1992 Washington Monthly (Nexis) June 39 Harvard Law has its share of Marxoids, known there as proponents of Critical Legal Studies.
1994 Guardian (Nexis) 18 Nov. 26 Though most Marxists and Marxoids in the West now uncritically support the Sarajevo government, this distortion cannot be fathered on Marxism sensu stricto.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.n.1946