What good is one of the communist thinker’s most important texts to 21st-century readers? Credit...Jack Smyth Supported by By James Miller James Miller teaches at the New School for Social Research.

Four notebooks on history, presumably written towards the end of Marx's life. Published only in Russian: Хронологические выписки, volumes 5-8 of the Marx and Engels Archives (1938-1946). "The entire ...

On Fox News Tuesday, anchor Bill Hemmer made a major mix-up of political history when he appeared to credit philosopher Karl Marx with writing “Mein Kampf.” “I remember 20 years old going to Trier, ...

There's a basic principle of free speech that the censors always seem to forget. Namely, the act of suppressing speech only tends to add more fuel to the speaker's fire. Don't believe me? Just ask ...

The young cigar maker in New York City attended a few socialist meetings in the 1870s. But he longed to hear “constructive” ideas about how to achieve a better life for himself and his fellow workers.

In 1845, Karl Marx declared: “philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it”. Change it he did. Political movements representing masses of new industrial ...

The twentieth century has witnessed mounting interest in the meaning of history on the part of scholars and laymen alike. This is not a wholly new development, for man has always been inclined to seek ...

The German philosopher, Karl Marx, born in 1818 gave a piece of his mind to the world, and almost 200 years later humanity still can't stop thinking about it. In debates, papers and memes, Marx's ...

The making and remaking of Capital. In the first English translation in half a century, Paul Reitter and Paul North distill the essence of the Marxist masterpiece by going back to basics. At any given ...

Two great personalities on earth – the Buddha and Karl Marx – propagated their ideals in different fields of thought in different times. The Buddha, born in 563 B.C., is perceived to be the founder of ...