Question

what is the meaning of leftists and marxists?

Answer 1

leftist means someone who seeks radical social and economic change in the direction of greater quality.
Marxist means the political, economic and social principles and policies advocated by Marx.

Answer 2

A leftist is someone who supports the ideas of the political left. Two of the men were leftists and two were centrists.

Marxism is a political and economic way of organizing society, where the workers own the means of production. Socialism is a way of organizing a society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the proletariat. Marx proposed that this was the next necessary step in the progress of history.