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 ...

Discover the story of Marxism in this simplified overview. Learn about its key concepts, the ideas of Karl Marx, and how Marxism has influenced political and social movements throughout history.

Two centuries after he was born in the otherwise blameless German city of Trier, on May 5, 1818, Karl Marx is enjoying a moment. He and his writings have had such moments before—many other moments, ...

Open Marxism 3: Emancipating Marx was released in 1995. The introduction to volume 3 is included below along with the full PDF. For a fuller overview of Open Marxism, see the introduction to volume 1 ...

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 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 ...

Karl Marx developed his ideas in an era of when young people were dedicating their lives to a struggle for new rights and freedoms. Brian Jones examines Marx's revolutionary ideas in this second of ...

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 ...

I recently wrote about the Karl Marx bicentennial birthday bash being celebrated throughout 2018 at Carnegie Mellon University. There, at an annual tuition cost of $61,541 (not including room and ...

The list of developments for which "cultural Marxism" has been blamed includes the following: the LGBT rights movement, especially the legal push to eliminate sodomy laws and legitimize gay marriage; ...