A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, the father of twentieth century totalitarian communism, the guidebook writer of revolutionary ...

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 ...

Biographies come in two kinds. The first and more conventional kind portrays the hero as an exception, a genius or a rebel against his time. (I say “his” time because traditional biographies ...

Karl Marx died 128 years ago today. Marxism, however, is flourishing, aided by a seemingly resurgent China. Hu Jintao, the Chinese supremo, has been pushing his campaign—encapsulated by the phrase ...

In this text from 1938, Karl Korsch puts forward the notion that Marxism in Russia effectively served as the ideological cloak of capitalist development, but that this was in fact anticipated by ...

Karl Marx set his theoretical investigations of capital’s mode of production and its laws of motion in the context of British industrial capitalism between the 1840s and the 1860s. He initially did so ...

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Pope Francis poses with Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich-Freising and his delegation during the pope’s general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican April 19, 2917. (Credit: Paul Haring/CNS.) ...

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 ...