A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, the father of twentieth century totalitarian communism, the guidebook writer of revolutionary ...

Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, a city in present-day Germany. He was a philosopher, economist, historian, and political theorist. He is best known for developing Marxism, a theory that looks at ...

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The tomb of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetary in London, England. (Creative Commons/vintagedept) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

A half-century has passed since the first book appeared, and in the interim we have witnessed both the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, since the 1967 war (if not before), the ongoing colonization ...

In this text from 1938, Karl Korsch puts forward the notion that Marxism in Russia effectively served as the ideological cloak of capitalist development, but that this was in fact anticipated by ...

India, Jan. 21 -- Karl Marx was the propounder of Communism. As an ideology or philosophical school, Marxism got established ...