In November 1864, Karl Marx wrote a letter congratulating President Abraham Lincoln on his reelection to the White House. "From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of ...

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 ...

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.

In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., contends that Karl Marx’s Capital is unrivaled in its explanatory power ...

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. A Social Democratic leaflet against capitalism, 1905. In 2008, on the ...

Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 6 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, 7th ed., 1999. Robert Heilbroner's The Worldly ...

Is Marxism is the solution to all capitalism’s problems. Or a threat to America’s soul. To some, Marxism is the solution to all capitalism’s problems. To others, it’s a major threat to democracy. But ...

If capitalism had been overthrown as quickly as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had at first expected, John Cassidy’s sprawling “Capitalism and Its Critics” would have been shorter and easier to write, ...

KARL MARX, the founder of materialistic socialism, is recognized by economists as one of the three or four greatest minds who have contributed to the progress of economic science. What he did was to ...

The recent victory by the Amazon Labor Union on Staten Island, NY is a hopeful and inspiring indication that workplace organization is still possible, even in an age of isolated and unorganized ...

David Elias Aviles Espinoza received funding for his PhD research from the Chilean Agency for Research and Development (ANID) The term “late capitalism” seems to be everywhere as a trending meme – ...