On Karl Marx’s birth anniversary, a counterfactual look at how labour rights, revolutions, welfare states, and today’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marx’s work enabled us to understand the basic dynamic of capitalism, its place in the history of civilisations, and learn from the historical ebb and flow of the class struggle. As Engels said at the ...

This month marks the bicentennial of an unusually consequential birth: Karl Marx, who entered the world on May 5, 1818. China’s president marked the anniversary by celebrating the man whose ideology ...

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 ...