Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, a city in present-day Germany. He was a philosopher, economist, historian, and political theorist. He is best known for developing Marxism, a theory that looks at ...

Marx built part of his system on the belief that capital would create the “great reserve army of the unemployed,” and modern ...

Couldn’t the aversion to critical race theory be something other than racism, at least in part? Sure, there are knuckle-dragging cross burners who want all nonwhites removed from the U.S. and believe ...

To the extent that most of us take the time to try to make sense of the society we live in, we are generally at a loss to account for both the continual change and the particulars we see before us, ...

Theories of crisis have always been intensely political. Different views of capitalist development and breakdown have always shaped, and been shaped by, political strategies. In the early and ...

Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century Through the Prism of Value, by Guglielmo Carchedi and Michael Roberts, aims to explain 21st-century capitalism through Karl Marx’s value theory. It aligns with ...

Karl Marx was a philosopher and revolutionary who, with Friedrich Engels, wrote "The Communist Manifesto," a pamphlet that provided a platform for the European socialist and communist parties during ...