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Noun: neo-Marxism
  1. A term loosely applied to any social theory or sociological analysis which draws on the ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but amends or extends these, usually by incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions
    "According to Therborn, Habermas is closer to the neo-Marxism of Anderson, Cohen, and Poulantzas, than to the Marxism of the Frankfurt School with which he is so often identified"

Type of: ideology, mythos, political orientation, political theory

Encyclopedia: Neo-Marxism