Karl Marx's Das Kapital is a ground-breaking work of economic analysis. But, argues Francis Wheen, it is also an unfinished literary masterpiece which, with its multi-layered structure, can be read as ...

In most historical biopics, there comes the time for the “not zat ragtime!” moment, named (by me) after a line uttered in a largely forgotten example of the genre, “The Benny Goodman Story” (1956).

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin, says that no one can fully understand Marx’s work without understanding Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, a German philosopher. Hegel was the one ...

One of the most common phrases to be heard from those on “the left” is the assertion that someone or some public policy is or is not on “the right side of history.” It has almost become a mantra by ...

Editors Note: As part of our ongoing effort to spur new discussion on the relation of philosophy and organization, we republish excerpts of a speech given by Dunayevskaya on Jan. 1, 1983 to the ...

Tomb of Karl Marx in Highgate cemetery, London. On March 14, 1883, Karl Marx died at 41 Maitland Park Rd in Chalk Farm, London. Three days later only 12 people attended his funeral in Highgate ...

In addition to the debates during the lifetime of Marx and Engels, Kangal also covers the debates that took place in the interlude between Engels’ death and the Russian 1917 revolution. For instance, ...

Eric Rahim, in his work titled A Promethean Vision: The Formation of Karl Marx’s Worldview, has, in tracing the trajectory of Marx’s thought, made an admirable intellectual contribution to the history ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Sixty-odd people are sitting in a circle at an open courtyard in front of a house at Munnurkodu in Ottapalam’s Pookkottukavu panchayat. Kottilingal Rajan, the house owner, too is ...