The first installment of Michael Heinrich’s three-volume biography of Karl Marx titled “Karl Marx and the Birth of Modern Society” is now available from Monthly Review Press. In keeping with MR’s long ...

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, ...

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 ...

More than a century after his death, Karl Marx still speaks mdash;perhaps uncomfortably mdash;to the lived realities of many ...

May Day 2018 is invested with special significance, because we are celebrating not only the day of international working-class solidarity, but also the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx.

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 ...