LEADERS of the 75 Communist parties meeting in Moscow—and those conspicuously absent—often argue bitterly about what their faith, Marxism, means. More interesting is the question of what Marxism does.

'Orthodox' Marxist crisis theories have, in neglecting Marxism's philosophical roots, wandered into a cul-de-sac of their own logical empiricist making and are unable to offer, therefore, a viable ...

The revolutions in Russia and China were both, at least ostensibly, Marxist in character. The Second World War turned out in favour of the Allies partly because Hitler, blinded by his hatred of ...

Karl Marx's 19th-century metaphor vividly critiques capitalism, describing capital as "dead labor" that thrives by exploiting ...

Marx is famous as a social theorist. that is, as one who adopts ‘society’ as an object of theoretical reflection. The aim of the present piece is to argue that he is neither a social theorist, nor ...

Elias Rodriques ’13, an assistant professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College, returned to his frosh dorm, SLE, to discuss Black Marxism’s history and his journey with the theory on Friday.

Couldn’t the aversion to critical race theory be something other than racism, at least in part? Sure, there are knuckle-dragging cross burners who want all nonwhites removed from the U.S. and believe ...

I hope it won’t bore you too much to hear a little bit about Marxist theory. Apparently Das Kapital bores actual, self-identified “Marxists” too much, because they seem to be completely illiterate in ...

There are tens of thousands of pages in the four hefty volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, more commonly referred to as Das Kapital. The first volume of the opus—where Marx ...