To the editor: Life sometimes imitates art. It sure did in Mary Gabriel’s op-ed article, “A letter to Karl Marx on his 200th birthday.” Gabriel writes, “Don’t get me wrong. The initial benefits of ...
“The general idea of this little book is to understand and explain why Marx will still be read in the twenty-first century, not only as a monument of the past, but as a contemporary author — ...
Editors Note: As part of our ongoing effort to spur new discussion on the relation of philosophy and organization, we republish excerpts of a speech given by Dunayevskaya on Jan. 1, 1983 to the ...
Communism always has a "ruling class" ("nomenklatura"), and they do just fine, economically, thank you very much, with their ...
As part of our commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Marx's COMMUNIST MANIFESTO, we publish Raya Dunayevskaya's 1980 critique of John Molyneux's MARXISM AND THE PARTY, a 1978 work by a British ...
Isaac Deutscher once told a story “about his difficulties as a young Communist in finding an entry-way into [Karl Marx’s] Capital.” He had been relieved to hear a very famous socialist orator of the ...
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 ...
Why are some of the greatest thinkers being expelled from their disciplines? How is it that Freud is not taught in psychology departments, Marx is not taught in economics, and Hegel is hardly taught ...
While never a believer in Judaism, and at times vicious about the faith, the revolutionary philosopher Karl Marx came from an indisputably Jewish background: Both of his parents’ fathers were rabbis.
Here’s an example: Most Cubans live on $44 (U.S.) per month. In contrast, when Fidel Castro died in 2016, his net worth was estimated at $900 million. In America, wealth is created by providing value ...