Friends, I don’t need to tell you that we’re in the middle of a world-historical crisis. In fact, we are standing now at the point of convergence of multiple crises, and we need to act accordingly.
Karl Marx’s critique of political economy is oriented on an Aufhebung [a sublation] of classical political economy, for opening up the frontiers of its future as a science, aimed at self-emancipation ...
Though it may seem strange, Karl Marx was not always a communist. As late as 1842, when Marx was in his mid-20s, he actually said he opposed any attempt to establish a communist system. In October ...
Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give a short overview, for popular… Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length ...
Is this a mere coincidence? Trump's pick to replace the former Secretary of Defense Jim "Mad Dog" Mattis is the current acting Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing exec. He joined ...
Is capitalism in crisis? That is what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said recently, more precisely she said that we are witnessing a “crisis of late stage capitalism.” Others seem to agree. So ...
This month marks the bicentennial of an unusually consequential birth: Karl Marx, who entered the world on May 5, 1818. China’s president marked the anniversary by celebrating the man whose ideology ...
As the world economy spirals down into its deepest crisis since the great depression, the writings of Karl Marx have made a return to the top seller lists in bookstores. In his native Germany, the ...
With populist movements surging around the world, there is no better moment to reacquaint oneself with the work of Karl Marx, who predicted our current economic condition back in the eighteen-hundreds ...
President Donald Trump has apparently lost his taste for traditional American capitalism. His policies are creating what Chinese government officials might describe as a “socialist market economy with ...