What did German philosopher, Karl Marx mean by "Shame is already revolution"? Explore the quote's deeper meaning, historical ...

Reporting from Berlin — A specter is haunting Germany — the specter of Karl Marx. A curious debate has erupted just as the hometown of communism’s founding father is about to celebrate the 200th ...

Karl Marx never publicly referred to his Jewish background. That background was known to all his friends, and Marx gave no sign of wishing to deny it. But even his daughter Eleanor, who studied ...

First published a century and a half ago, Karl Marx's work 'Das Kapital' is still read today. Its German author was the first economist to take on globalization, says Bernd Ziesemer in an interview ...

Editor’s Note: Mary Gabriel is author of “Love and Capital, Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution” (Little, Brown and Company), a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. There are few ...

Many scholars argue Karl Marx was an inevitable product of the Industrial Revolution, and its discontents. The influential philosopher, political theorist, and economist was born 200 years ago, this ...

The German city of Trier has never been particularly fond of its most famous son, Karl Marx, who helped turn communism into an ideology that changed the course of history. Conservative and Catholic, ...