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Marcyites

Marcyites is the plural of Marcyite.

Meaning of Marcyite

Noun

Marcyite (plural Marcyites)

  1. (Marxism) A 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

Questions about Marcyites

What is Marcyites the plural of?
Marcyites is the plural of Marcyite.

Words near Marcyites in the dictionary

  1. Marcuses
  2. Marcusian
  3. Marcusians
  4. Marcy
  5. Marcyite
  6. Marcyites
  7. marcylite
  8. Marcys
  9. mard
  10. Mardakert
  11. Mardan

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