Karl Marx

Content by and about Karl Marx (1818-1883), a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, and communist. He is best known for his theories about capitalism, and for co-authoring The Communist Manifesto with Friedrich Engels.

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RUSSIAN REVOLUTION CONGRESS | Athens, Greece, 12-14 April 2019 | LAW SCHOOL OF A

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION CONGRESS | Athens, Greece, 12-14 April 2019 | LAW SCHOOL OF ATHENS

It is a pleasure to invite you to Russian Revolution: Theoretical approaches and open questions…

PolyluxMarx: An Illustrated Workbook for Studying Marx’s Capital

Marx im Westen or Marx in the West

Capital Volume 3 Unedited by Engels

New Harmony by F. Bate 1838 Robert Owen's utopian community

Marx's Critique of Utopian Socialists

Marx's Critique of Utopian Socialists Roger Paden 2002 Journal of Utopian Studies

The Civil War in the United States

Marx writing in Die Presse No. 306, November 7, 1861. Marx makes explicit his concern that the Confederacy might win the US civil war, and that…

Neue Rheinische Zeitung

A short history of the newspaper Neue Rheinische Zeitung edited by Karl Marx in the 1840s and the role it played in the events of the day.

Is an over-supply of labour depressing wages?

Are trade union bureaucrats correct in saying Marx believed an over-supply of labour depresses wages? We take a look at what Marx called "the…

Staughton Lynd

Staughton Lynd’s classic "Intellectual Origins of American Radicalism" (1968)

Notes that were taken in graduate school.

Cuadernos de Negación – Against the Valorization of Life – Part I

We have decided to undertake the task of translation the whole of CUARDERNOS DE NEGACIÓN 11th issue …

An updated and improved Marxism

A brief outline of a 21st-century conception of revolution. The notion of a "dictatorship of the proletariat" that smashes the capitalist state…

Rethinking the Marxist conception of revolution

A critique and revision of the Marxist conception of socialist revolution.