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… ...

In the opening lines of this book Michael Heinrich quotes from an 1868 letter in which Karl Marx mentions a publisher’s request for a biography. “Not only did I not send one”, said Marx, “I did not ...

Karl Marx was a thinker whose theories about capitalism were revolutionary. Yet he was not a revolutionary activist. Marx’s Jewish background was common knowledge, but he never referred to it publicly ...

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 ...

Greatness and Illusion by Professor Gareth Stedman Jones places Marx in his 19th century context, thus distinguishing between Marx the man and Marxism the movement. Professor Stedman Jones says: “When ...

“Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution” (Little, Brown and Co.), by Mary Gabriel: Karl Marx, the father of international communism, was a devoted husband to his wife, ...