Per its introduction, Paul Kengor’s new book, The Devil and Karl Marx, “deals with the grim, disturbing, militant atheism and intense anti-religious elements of Marx and other founders and ...

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 ...

Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks. The reader can become so delighted with the rhetorical pyrotechnics that the force of the argument is lost. But for all the literary razzle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On or about February 24, 1848, a twenty-three-page pamphlet was published in London. Modern industry, it proclaimed, had revolutionized the world. It surpassed, in its accomplishments, all the great ...

This article first appeared on page 26 of Issue 21. You probably don’t think about Marxism when you think about Bitcoin. To most people, Marx is known as the guy who didn’t like private property and ...

The writer is a political commentator. Eulogies for Karl Marx on his bicentenary – he was born in 1818 – and elegies for communism are the order of the day. They are deserving. The USSR of Vladimir ...

According to Richard Bean and Clive Coleman, the joint authors of Young Marx, it does so within the same play. Young Marx is set in 1850, a fallow period in Marx’s life, two years after the ...