Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. 'Karl Marx: The Story of His Life' (German: 'Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens'), first… Translation of The Commodity the original chapter 1 of the ...

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. 'Karl Marx: The Story of His Life' (German: 'Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens'), first… ...

Karl Marx died in 1883. In the more than 20 biographies written about him, most depict his final years as spent quietly waiting to die. Certainly he had enough personal and family health problems to ...

As a child of the Cold War, I retain a reflexive disdain for Marxism, an ideology I believe negates the better angels of mankind’s nature while arming totalitarian zealots with a seductive gospel to ...

How was the ideology of Karl Marx shaped by his Jewish background? Over the past several years, Yale University Press has published a series of short biographies of eminent Jews, from Moses to Barbra ...

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 were alive today, he’d be as scandalous as John Edwards or Arnold Schwarzenegger, said Elaine Showalter in The Washington Post. In 1850, Marx’s wife, Jenny, was pregnant with their fourth ...

Karl Marx was a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist ...

Eleanor Marx, the fourth daughter of Jenny and Karl Marx, was a lifelong socialist writer, translator and organiser. As explained in Rachel Holmes' authoritative biography Eleanor Marx: A Life, she ...

Biographies of two married couples, Karl and Jenny Marx and Marie and Pierre Curie, were among the nominees for the National Book Awards, which were announced today. Four out of five nonfiction ...

This biographical drama melts five crucial years in the life of a revolutionary into the buttery batter of a romantic bio-pic. The action runs from 1843 to 1848 and follows the twentysomething ...