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In the United States, like in most countries, critics of Marxism present it as a rootless foreign import. Yet both American ...

The Russian revolution of 1917 profoundly sharpened ... It might seem perplexing that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels uncritically reproduced this expression during and after the European ...

Some 150 years ago, Karl Marx wrote about how the bourgeoisie ... "The hemorrhoids have affected me more than the French Revolution," Marx wrote to Friedrich Engels in 1852. Whenever Marx had ...

The spirit of Karl Marx is alive and well and living in America. That's according to Illinois State University history professor Andrew Hartman, whose new book is "Karl Marx in America." ...

Karl Marx coined the term "commons" for things essential to our daily lives that are managed by the community. Saito says most have now been appropriated for profit-making.

If Karl Marx were alive today, he would have really found it a very exciting because we are yet again at a point where a new economics is required to explain the strange situation ...

Some would argue that Karl Marx, author of “Capital,” has been proven wrong on just about everything he wrote. The founder of scientific socialism was born 200 years ago on May 5. Some would ...