This post is nothing fancy or profound; I just want to put some emotive meat on Karl Marx’s useful, perhaps essential, yet always slightly skeletal, concept of alienation. The necessity of working for ...

Rich and powerful men are doing unspeakable things—from bombing schoolgirls in Iran to trafficking and abusing girls in Manhattan and Florida.

Explore whether communism remains relevant in the 21st century. This academic analysis examines Marxist ideas, global capitalism, social inequality, eco-socialism, and modern left movements shaping ...

Millions of people are now asking chatbots to summarize books, draft emails, and even explain political events to them. But ...

In the face of the multifaceted, compounding environmental catastrophe confronting humanity as a result of capitalism, what ...

Like many who attempt to pin him down, I encountered a conundrum. And then, unexpectedly, I encountered a chessboard. Marx played chess later in life, particularly during his London exile. There is ...

Marx built part of his system on the belief that capital would create the “great reserve army of the unemployed,” and modern ...

14 March of this year marked the 143rd death anniversary of Karl Marx, a revolutionary philosopher whom I do not need to introduce to my readers. Having known that he was buried in Highgate Cemetery, ...

A lot of the time we feel powerless to change the system or even our own lives.One explanation of that sense of powerlessness ...

In the early 1980s, rural Chinese workers saw their incomes surge amid the country’s economic liberalization. It was the beginning of one of the most remarkable feats in history as hundreds of ...

Black Lives Matter’s financial controversies has the organization back in the news, and has renewed interest in Marxism in general, particularly its attacks on the family. And with good reason. Not ...