How Marxism went from philosophy to cudgel

马克思主义如何从哲学之剑转变为棍棒之器

The Indicator from Planet Money

2025-10-28

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Republican politicians like to use the term ‘Marxist’ to criticize Democrats. Lately, they’ve dubbed New York City mayoral candidate a ‘Marxist’ despite him identifying himself as a democratic socialist. Today on the show, we dig into what ‘Marxism, as an economic term,’ actually means.Related episodes: Socialism 101Even the facts are polarizedFor sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter.   Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • NPR. This is The Indicator From Planet Money.

  • I'm Paddy Hirsch.

  • And I'm Adrian Ma.

  • There's a word that Republican politicians have been tossing around recently that we want to talk about.

  • Oh, hold on a second.

  • We're doing politics.

  • We don't do politics here.

  • This is an economic show.

  • Yeah, but this word is actually an economics term.

  • And the term is Marxism.

  • Oh, okay.

  • Right.

  • Yeah.

  • This is our latest episode in an ongoing series, economics terms corrupted by politics.

  • My friends, this is not your father's Democratic Party.

  • They are now full on to Marxism and socialism.

  • Everybody knows she's a Marxist.

  • Her father's a Marxist.

  • You know, part of me wants to say, let's take back Marxism,

  • except, you know, I really don't want to do that.