“We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely show the world what it is really fighting for, and consciousness is ...

Throughout the tumultuous 20th century, American's of every economic class repeatedly rejected the ideology of Marxism. Why? Because of Henry Ford. In 1914, Ford astonished the world by offering ...

Karl Marx's claim that the working class has the power to change the world is perhaps his most important contribution to socialist theory. Before Marx workers were viewed at best as victims of the ...

The fact that Marx wrote little on questions of organization has made it easier for 'socialists' and 'Marxists' of all stripes to claim that their particular organizational prescriptions were the ...

Andrew Zimmerman is professor of history at the George Washington University. He is writing an international history of the American Civil War. July 2, 2013 The Stars and Stripes held the place of ...

With the polite and well–scrubbed ghost of Karl Marx now making regular appearances on television talk shows and being given column space in the mainstream press the apparent question is: what does it ...

A passage from Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" predicted that the economic crisis of 2008-09 would lead to communism. Famous dead people are good commentators on current events: They are no longer around to ...