Marx responds to Bakunin's criticisms of Marx and Marxism. Marx's comments were written at the end of 1874 as he read Bakunin's book as part of his efforts to learn Russian and to study Russian ...

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. 'Karl Marx: The Story of His Life' (German: 'Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens'), first… Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. Love and ...

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 ...

If Karl Marx were alive today, he’d be as scandalous as John Edwards or Arnold Schwarzenegger, said Elaine Showalter in The Washington Post. In 1850, Marx’s wife, Jenny, was pregnant with their fourth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a child of the Cold War, I retain a reflexive disdain for Marxism, an ideology I believe negates the better angels of mankind’s nature while arming totalitarian zealots with a seductive gospel to ...