Books & the Arts / Karl Marx never visited the United State but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless. Robin Blackburn ...

“We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and consciousness is ...

The illiberal view of progress has a terrible record. Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the Terror, invoked Rousseau; ...

Throughout the tumultuous 20th century, American's of every economic class repeatedly rejected the ideology of Marxism. Why? Because of Henry Ford. In 1914, Ford astonished the world by offering ...

Utilizing class analysis is the bread and butter of socialist politics. But understanding how classes are shaped and ...

With the polite and well–scrubbed ghost of Karl Marx now making regular appearances on television talk shows and being given column space in the mainstream press the apparent question is: what does it ...

Karl Marx is barfing in the street, but Friedrich Engels—cool as a German pastry under his blonde haircut and expensive hat—is fine. Both are young, in their early to mid-twenties. It is 1843, five ...

Jason Barker invites us, in the New York Times, to celebrate the bicentennial of Karl Marx’s birth in the ancient southern German city of Trier. The celebrity philosophy professor’s argument is that ...

A passage from Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" predicted that the economic crisis of 2008-09 would lead to communism. Famous dead people are good commentators on current events: They are no longer around to ...