A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, the father of twentieth century totalitarian communism, the guidebook writer of revolutionary ...

Biographies come in two kinds. The first and more conventional kind portrays the hero as an exception, a genius or a rebel against his time. (I say “his” time because traditional biographies ...

India, Jan. 21 -- Karl Marx was the propounder of Communism. As an ideology or philosophical school, Marxism got established ...

Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, a city in present-day Germany. He was a philosopher, economist, historian, and political theorist. He is best known for developing Marxism, a theory that looks at ...

Paul Mattick Sr.'s 1939 review, from Living Marxism, of Karl Korsch' biography simply titled Karl Marx, first published in English in 1938. Mattick finds the biography largely relevant to proletarian ...

The tomb of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetary in London, England. (Creative Commons/vintagedept) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

From 1949, when Mao Zedong’s communists triumphed in China’s civil war, until the collapse of the Berlin Wall 40 years later, Karl Marx’s historical significance was unsurpassed. Nearly 4 of every 10 ...

Karl Marx is barfing in the street, but Friedrich Engels—cool as a German pastry under his blonde haircut and expensive hat—is fine. Both are young, in their early to mid-twenties. It is 1843, five ...