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 ...

Karl Marx’s famous quote, “The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property,” spots a central concept of communist ideology. More than a century ...

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 ...

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, ...

What makes something valuable? Karl Marx developed a distinct approach to answer this question—the “labour theory of value”.

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 ...

If you think America won the Cold War, take a look at a new article in Teen Vogue headlined “Who is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar.” It praises the communist scholar’s critique of the ...