In the September 2000 issue of In These Times, Howard Zinn wrote this review of a book about the life of Karl Marx by Francis Wheen. On the 200 th anniversary of Marx’s birth, we present Zinn’s review ...

The global economic crisis and recession that began in 2008 had at least one unexpected outcome: a surge in sales of Karl Marx's Capital. Submitted by Tyrion on September 20, 2013 Although mainstream ...

What you need to know about these social, political, and economic theories Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and ...

Is capitalism in crisis? That is what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said recently, more precisely she said that we are witnessing a “crisis of late stage capitalism.” Others seem to agree. So ...

And this was an idea which has had a long history. Marx, for example, basically said that, I mean, at most you can have usurer’s capital, which begets money out of money, operating for particular ...

In my view, Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism is really powerful and important. I think the best formulation of this analysis is in his book Capital, Volume 1. Joseph Kay recently wrote a blog post ...

Author’s Note: The following is an abridged and edited passage from the first chapter of my Invisible Leviathan: Marx’s Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism, published by Haymarket Books in 2019 ...

KARL MARX, the founder of materialistic socialism, is recognized by economists as one of the three or four greatest minds who have contributed to the progress of economic science. What he did was to ...

Thinking of the relevance of Karl Marx on the 200th anniversary of his birth on 5 May 1818, takes me back to a wonderful picture of him in Algeria. It was taken in his final year in 1882. Underneath ...