Two hundred years ago, Karl Marx, the founder of scientific socialism and one of the greatest political thinkers in history, was born. Marx’s theoretical and political perspective has shaped the ...
Much contemporary left thought focuses on what is wrong with capitalism. Is capitalism bad because of its unjust distributive ...
Late last month the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Sri Lanka held a lecture titled “An introduction to historical materialism” at Peradeniya University in the city of ...
In Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason (Oxford University Press, 2018), David Harvey writes about Capital, Karl Marx’s 1867 critique of political economy, in a way that welcomes readers ...
On Saturday October 21st Gareth Stedman Jones this weekend lectured to a sell out audience on Karl Marx's Capital at the Festival of Politics, Edinburgh. The event was chaired by Dr Matt Perry, Reader ...
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American Marx

While we’re told by politicians that the ideas of Karl Marx are foreign and have no place in this country, history proves otherwise. Andrew Hartman shows that Marx and Marxism have had an a ...
A half-century has passed since the first book appeared, and in the interim we have witnessed both the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, since the 1967 war (if not before), the ongoing colonization ...
Karl Marx is a familiar name in history books, but he is no longer mentioned in one study room at the University of Florida. Marx was one of more than a dozen historical individuals whose name was ...