Definition of "Marxian"

Marxian

adjective
comparative more Marxian, superlative most Marxian
1. Of, pertaining to, or influenced by the 19th-century philosopher Karl Marx and his political and economic theories; now often distinguished from Marxist by the nuance that one does not necessarily adhere to Marxism itself.
  Quotations
  But to use game theory in a Marxian setting requires more that simply adopting the tools and methods of non-cooperative game theory, root and branch.
  2005, Bruce Philp, Reduction, Rationality and Game Theory in Marxian Economics, page 3
2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Marx Brothers or their films.
noun
plural Marxians
1. A Marxist.
  Quotations
  Hannan turned from the piano and said, winking at the others: "Mac thinks a Marxian is somebody who went to St Mark's school."
  1934, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night: A Romance, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons; republished as chapter V, in Malcolm Cowley, editor, Tender is the Night: A Romance [...] With the Author’s Final Revisions, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1951, book IV (Escape: 1925–1929), page 215