Much contemporary left thought focuses on what is wrong with capitalism. Is capitalism bad because of its unjust distributive ...

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who co-opted their movement. By Thomas Meaney What good is one of the communist ...

Reporting from Berlin — A specter is haunting Germany — the specter of Karl Marx. A curious debate has erupted just as the hometown of communism’s founding father is about to celebrate the 200th ...

If you think America won the Cold War, take a look at a new article in Teen Vogue headlined “Who is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar.” It praises the communist scholar’s critique 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 ...

If Karl Marx hadn't died in 1883, we can suppose he'd be used to being misunderstood and demonized by now. His story and his ideas are certainly more complex than many of us realize. Love and Capital: ...

Cardinal Reinhard Marx went total fanboy over Karl Marx, the author of the Communist Manifesto, saying that, “Without him, there would not be any Catholic social doctrine.” Funny, I thought Jesus was ...

Susanna Nicchiarelli’s “Nico, 1988,” about the German singer who performed with the Velvet Underground, made a splash at the Venice Film Festival in 2017 when it took top honors in the cutting-edge ...

What are the images you might conjure up if asked to think about The Communist Manifesto? Of the Soviet, Chinese and other communist revolutions? Of the propagation of a social theory exploited by ...