I’m interested in learning more about someone whose ideas have fundamentally shaped 175 years of world history. But others are less enthused.

Epicurus provided Marx with the basis for a materialist, anti-idealist worldview that understood both nature and human ...

In a little villa at Haverstock Hill, the northwest portion of London, lives Karl Marx, the cornerstone of modern socialism.

In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., contends that Karl Marx’s Capital is unrivaled in its explanatory power ...

THE RED PRUSSIAN, THE LIFE & LEGEND OF KARL MARX (422 pp.)— eopold Schwarzschlld—Scribner ($4). “If a name had to be found for the age in which we live,” says the author of this book, “we might safely ...

Karl Marx has insisted that reason appears through social life, not as a fixed abstract. He has argued that ideas reflect ...

Karl Marx was a philosopher and revolutionary who, with Friedrich Engels, wrote "The Communist Manifesto," a pamphlet that provided a platform for the European socialist and communist parties during ...