The rote, insistent quality of Blank Space limits its reach to those with the patience to endure it, and therefore those most ...

Karl Marx's 19th-century metaphor vividly critiques capitalism, describing capital as "dead labor" that thrives by exploiting "living labor." His words highlight how wealth accumulation in capitalist ...

Health and medicine is more than just biological—societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical ...

Fifty per cent of them ranked “hard work” as the most important reason, but 7% said it had no part to play. At the same time, ...

The university is reviewing courses under new rules restricting teaching about race and gender. Administrators told a ...

Communists are the only force who address the question of land distribution seriously, aware of its implications for caste ...

Marx did not die but was rather reborn, transformed; we were in the period of the new reading of Marx, of the brilliant influence of the re-reading of Marx by authors such as Althusser and Poulantzas ...

Andreas Malm and Thea Riofrancos joined The Nation’s Wen Stephenson in an urgent conversation about the left and the climate ...

While the government heralded plans for Britain’s first automated research lab, leading AI expert Professor Yu Xiong, who ...

Further on in the theory, Baran–Sweezy argued that the problem with capitalism in its monopoly stage was not that profits were too low but that the “surplus” was too high and needed to be “absorbed.” ...

Conflicts are not inherent in the operation of an unhampered market economy. There are conflicts between citizens because the ...

Why was the revolutionary road out of capitalism abandoned for an evolutionary one? Vivek Chibber explores how socialist ...