The economic theories of Karl Marx, born 200 years ago, became unchallengeable doctrine in many countries for much of the 20th century. We take a look at which of his ideas were right — and ...

From the Berlin Film Festival, a new film that focuses on Karl Marx’s early life is well made but misses an opportunity for provocation, writes Jessica Kiang.

May 5 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx, the 19th-century political economist. Soviet-style communism has settled into the ash heap of history, and yet, for many, the Great ...

“History” ends as the evolution of ideas to Pure Perfection. Marx and the Dialectic of the Material Means of Production Marx and his friend and longtime collaborator, Fredrick Engels (1820-1895) ...

Though it may seem strange, Karl Marx was not always a communist. As late as 1842, when Marx was in his mid-20s, he actually said he opposed any attempt to establish a communist system.

Karl Marx is turning 200, and that’s creating a stir in Germany, which was literally divided over his ideas ...

Karl Marx’s work can be explained in five minutes, five hours, in five years or in a half century, wrote French political thinker Raymond Aron.A utopian vision of a just society for some, a ...

It was December 1861, a Tuesday at noon, when President Abraham Lincoln sent his first annual message ⁠ — what later became the State of the Union ⁠— to the House and Senate. By the next ...

Karl Marx in five core ideas A utopian vision of a just society for some, a blueprint for totalitarian regimes for others, Marxist thought is laid out in the Communist Manifesto and the three ...

But by understanding what Marx really had to say, and where his ideas came from, we can have a more productive conversation about what is and isn’t working in our current system, how class and ...

History 8: Big ideas and life lessons from Marx, Keynes and Smith and more season 5, episode 39 August 28, 20245:38 PM ET By ...

Alex Snowdon explains the Marxist view of how ideas develop and how socialists seek to change the world The first of these ...