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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Karl Marx, who was an acute analyst of society, though less successful as a revolutionary prognosticator, wrote one of the most evocative sentences on modern times when he described how under ...

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, citizens of Chemnitz – then known as Karl-Marx-Stadt – and the rest of East Germany would have seen Marx's face on their 100-mark banknotes.

Capitalism. When Karl Marx Made the Case for Capitalism In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.

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 ...

Statues of German political thinker Karl Marx created by artist Ottmar Hoerl are on display in Trier, Germany, on May 5, 2013. Hannelore Foerster/Getty Images Science and Technology ...

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 ...

Spotify’s new feature keeps recommending audiobooks on communism, but is it trying to radicalize the youth? Girl, no.

Even Karl Marx understood this, noting “free … only means in fact defraying the cost of education of the upper classes from the general tax receipts”.