The year 2018—the bicentenary of Marx’s birth—will be characterized, above all, by an immense intensification of social tensions and an escalation of class conflict around the world.

In his view, Marx was less inspired by the desperation of the 19th century working class, which cried out for immediate revolutionary change, than by the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and ...

Marx held a consistent view that our human nature was expressed in a drive to spontaneously and creatively produce products in a manner that is conducive to social and individual satisfaction.

Karl Marx photographed in 1875. Wikimedia Commons. His primary interest wasn’t simply capitalism. It was human existence and our potential. His enduring philosophical contribution is an ...

Karl Marx was supposed to be dead and buried. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and China’s Great Leap Forward into capitalism, communism faded into the quaint backdrop of James Bond movies ...

There are those who believe that Marx invented social class, but he himself was not of this party. Perhaps it was the idea of class struggle that he should have ... These two aspects of the ...

This is the English translation of the introduction to Tronti’s essay Marx, Labour-Power, Working Class (1965), which in turn is forms the theses section of Tronti's book Operai e Capitale (Workers ...

Karl Marx was a 19th-century philosopher, author, and economist famous for his ideas about capitalism and communism. He was the father of Marxism.

Marx’s Capital is back on the bookshelves in Germany -- but the Marx in question is a Catholic bishop. And while his book is a response to the crisis of capitalism the revolution he is calling ...