Shlomo Avineri: My early studies of Marx dealt mainly with his philosophy, not with his personal biography. Therefore, the Jewish issue didn’t come up. Marx is obviously not a Jewish thinker ...

On Saturday, Karl Marx turns 200 years old. A German dissident who spent most of his days in exile, Marx devoted his life to the notion that a literal heaven-on-earth was just a revolution away.

Marx has this lofty position in China thanks to the one immense insight he gave Chinese leaders and activists, intellectuals, and writers after the introduction of his ideas in the early 20th century.

Indifference was the world’s first reaction to Karl Marx’s magnum opus. In 1867, when the first volume of “Capital” was published in German, it was greeted with such silence that the ...

Editor’s Note: Mary Gabriel is author of “Love and Capital, Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution” (Little, Brown and Company), a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. There ...

The 19th century German revolutionary socialist was opposed to pretty much everything the current Russian president stands for.

In Karl Marx in America, Andrew Hartman, professor of history at Illinois State University, traces the life and afterlife of Marx in the United States, from his extensive correspondence with Union ...

Elon Musk, the richest capitalist ever to walk the earth, just took a page out of Karl Marx’s playbook. Karl Marx? Wasn’t he the creator of communism and one of the world’s greatest anti ...

Karl Marx is often understood to have dismissed morality as bourgeois ideology. But Vanessa Wills, author of the new book ...

Karl Marx once gifted a signed copy of “Das Kapital” to scientist Charles Darwin, but the book remained largely unread, providing an “amusing insight” into the dynamics between these two ...