How did Marxism become Marxism? A new book examines a set of thinkers and activists who helped transform a set of radical ideas into a political tradition. In the years leading up to the outbreak of ...

Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion offers a unique and relatable entry into the social and economic dimensions of modern Marxist thought. Ask any two Marxists to define Marxism, and you will likely get at ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Communist East Germany, according to Mr. Steiner, had something that the United States—now said to be, like the ...

Marx is famous as a social theorist. that is, as one who adopts ‘society’ as an object of theoretical reflection. The aim of the present piece is to argue that he is neither a social theorist, nor ...