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Marxism–Leninism
Marxism-Leninism, also called Marxist-Leninist ideology, is the synthesis of Marxism and Leninism codified under Stalin as the official doctrine of the USSR and most communist states, built on the vanguard party, democratic centralism, and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism
Marxism–Leninism–Maoism (MLM): communist ideology synthesized by Peru's Communist Party (PCP, Gonzalo) in 1982–1988, holding Marxism advanced through three stages; core methods are the mass line and protracted people's war.
Marxist feminism
Marxist feminism applies the Marxist critique of capitalism to women's oppression, centering unpaid reproductive labor; also called socialist feminism in some uses; key strands include Wages for Housework and social reproduction theory.
Marxist historiography
Marxist historiography: history-writing through historical materialism, modes of production, and class struggle, from Marx's 1859 Preface through Kautsky, the British Marxist historians, and post-1989 decline and Gramscian persistence.
Marxist literary criticism
Marxist literary criticism: analysis of literature through class, ideology, and economic structure, drawing on Marx and Engels and later Lukács, Gramsci, Benjamin, Adorno, Williams, Eagleton, and Jameson; defined by family resemblance rather than one method.
Marxist philosophy
Marxist philosophy: ideas developed from Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, centered on the materialist conception of history, alienation, class, and ideology; later systematized as dialectical materialism and continued in Western and Analytical Marxism.
Mary (2019 film)
Mary (2019) is an American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Goi, written by Anthony Jaswinski, starring Gary Oldman and Emily Mortimer as a family haunted by a ship bought for a charter business; released October 11, 2019 by RLJE Films, grossing $709,528 and scoring 4% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Mary (2024 film)
Mary (2024) is a Netflix biblical epic directed by D.J. Caruso, starring Noa Cohen, Ido Tako, and Anthony Hopkins as Herod, retelling the Nativity from Mary's perspective, drawing on the Protoevangelium of James, released December 6, 2024.
Mary (elephant)
Mary, also called Murderous Mary or Big Mary, was a five-ton Asian elephant of Sparks World Famous Shows, hanged September 13, 1916 in Erwin, Tennessee after killing keeper Red Eldridge in Kingsport; a noted public relations history case.
Mary (name)
Mary (name): English feminine given name from Hebrew Miryam via Greek Mariam/Maria and Latin Maria; uncertain meaning (bitter, rebellion, or Egyptian 'beloved'). Most popular US girls' name of the 20th century; 2025 rank #125.
Mary & George
Mary & George is a 2024 seven-part Sky Original and Starz historical drama created by D.C. Moore, based on Benjamin Woolley's The King's Assassin, starring Julianne Moore, Nicholas Galitzine, and Tony Curran as the Villiers family and James I.
Mary A. V. Lemmon
Mary A. V. Lemmon, also known as Mary Ann Vial Lemmon, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Mary A. Whooley
Mary A. Whooley is an American primary care physician and UCSF professor known for research linking depression and cardiovascular disease and for the two-question Whooley depression screen.
Mary Alice
Mary Alice, born Mary Alice Smith, was an American stage, television, and film actress who won the 1987 Tony Award for Fences and played the Oracle in The Matrix Revolutions.
Mary Alice Young
Mary Alice Young is the fictional narrator of Desperate Housewives (2004-2012), voiced by Brenda Strong; her suicide in the pilot, as former Angela Forrest of Salt Lake City, drives the series' first mystery.
Mary Allen (Indiana politician)
Mary Allen is an American politician and small business owner, the 2026 Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Indiana's 8th District and an Evansville City Councilor since 2023.
Mary and Max
Mary and Max (2009) is Adam Elliot's Australian claymation feature about pen pals Mary Dinkle and Max Horovitz; it opened Sundance 2009 and won the Annecy Cristal.
Mary and the Witch's Flower (メアリと魔女の花)
Mary and the Witch's Flower (メアリと魔女の花) is Studio Ponoc's 2017 debut anime feature, directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi, adapting Mary Stewart's The Little Broomstick; 103 minutes, GKIDS US release, 89% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Mary Ann Bevan
Mary Ann Bevan (Mary Ann Webster, 1874-1933), English nurse who developed acromegaly, won an 'Ugliest Woman in the World' contest after being widowed in 1914, and performed at Coney Island's Dreamland and Ringling Brothers to support her four children.
Mary Ann Cotton
Mary Ann Cotton (née Robson, 1832–1873), English woman hanged at Durham Gaol for the arsenic murder of her stepson Charles Edward Cotton; suspected in up to 21 family deaths, often called Britain's first female serial killer.
Mary Ann Mobley
Mary Ann Mobley (1937-2014), Miss America 1959 and Mississippi's first winner, became an actress with Elvis Presley films Girl Happy and Harum Scarum, recurring TV roles, and documentary filmmaking.
Mary Ann Moran
Mary Ann Moran is a marine microbial ecologist at the University of Georgia whose laboratory studies how ocean bacteria drive carbon and sulfur cycling and greenhouse gas production.
Mary Ann Nichols
Mary Ann 'Polly' Nichols (1845–1888), London woman murdered in Buck's Row, Whitechapel on 31 August 1888; first canonical victim of Jack the Ripper, wife of printer William Nichols, mother, workhouse inmate.
Mary Ann Osley
Mary Ann Osley is a molecular biologist who studies chromatin structure and histone gene regulation in yeast, including H2B ubiquitylation, DNA repair, and quiescence, and is a retired Distinguished Professor at the University of New Mexico.
Mary Ann Perez
Mary Ann Perez is an American politician and Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 144, serving as Vice Chair of the Transportation Committee.
Mary Ann Vecchio
Mary Ann Vecchio (Mary Ann Vecchio Gillum), the 14-year-old runaway in John Filo's Pulitzer-winning 1970 Kent State photograph kneeling over Jeffrey Miller; not a Kent State student, later a Las Vegas casino worker.
Mary Anna Custis Lee
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee (1807–1873), great-granddaughter of Martha Washington and wife of Robert E. Lee, owned Arlington House, advocated gradual emancipation, and lost the estate, which became Arlington National Cemetery.
Mary Anne Koda-Kimble
Mary Anne Koda-Kimble is an American pharmacist who served as dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy from 1998 to 2012, the school's first female and first clinician dean.
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump
Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (1912-2000), Scottish immigrant from Tong, Isle of Lewis, who worked as a domestic in New York and married Fred Trump in 1936; mother of five children including Donald Trump.
Mary Anne Tauskey
Mary Anne Tauskey (Tauskey-Parkhurst), born 1955 in Suffern, New York, American eventing rider; won team gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics on Marcus Aurelius as a non-scoring team member, and 1975 Pan Am team gold.