Exploring Karl Marx's temperament through his King's Gambit chess game and its metaphor for his revolutionary ideas.

Marx built part of his system on the belief that capital would create the “great reserve army of the unemployed,” and modern ...

London, December 18 [1878]—In a little villa at Haverstock Hill, the northwest portion of London, lives Karl Marx, the cornerstone of modern socialism. He was exiled from his native country—Germany—in ...

Left unspoken in Obama’s assertion of knowing what a minimum “fair” or “just” wage should be in America is the ghost of a thinker long thought to have been relegated to the dustbin of history: Karl ...

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 ...

W hen you put out into the world a new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, a book that calls forth passionate debate as few others do, you should expect pushback. Our new English edition of volume one, ...

Hasan Piker argues Democrats are struggling to construct effective media narratives. On “Interesting Times,” he tells Ross Douthat why he thinks conservatives are better at pushing their message. By ...

Quote of the day: Karl Marx predicted that capitalism produced internal tensions and that would lead to its self-destruction ...

August Diehl is Karl Marx in The Orchard presentation of The Young Karl Marx. *“They can try to gag us, but they can not kill thought” and other philosophical script lines were in The Orchard ...

WAGE Labour and Capital, is a pamphlet based on Karl Marx’s 1847 lectures to the German Workers’ Society in Brussels, ...