Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. Harold Laski was a member of the Labour Party (UK) and this work was published for the Fabian… ...

Karl Marx was a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist ...

How was the ideology of Karl Marx shaped by his Jewish background? Over the past several years, Yale University Press has published a series of short biographies of eminent Jews, from Moses to Barbra ...

As an influence on social change, the gospel according to Marx has few rivals. In his economic works, Marx predicted that capitalism would inevitably collapse; and in “The Communist Manifesto,” he ...

Michael Heinrich argues that Marx was not after a “Marxism” as an identity-defining “truth.” Rather, he was more interested in the critical… ...

Nothing succeeds like excess. Karl Marx — and the ill-defined, shape-shifting “ism” bearing his name — have achieved immortality in spite of the flawed nature of the man and the dismal failure of the ...

Karl Marx never publicly referred to his Jewish background. That background was known to all his friends, and Marx gave no sign of wishing to deny it. But even his daughter Eleanor, who studied ...

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 ...