Epicurus provided Marx with the basis for a materialist, anti-idealist worldview that understood both nature and human ...

Adam Smith, a Scotsman, and Karl Marx, a German, are probably the two best known political economists in the Conceptual West. They lived a few decades apart and each had profound impact on how ...

Karl Marx has insisted that reason appears through social life, not as a fixed abstract. He has argued that ideas reflect material conditions and often take unreasonable shapes until society changes.

Sociologist Anderson (Marx at the Margins) offers a striking reappraisal of Karl Marx, drawing on the voluminous unpublished writings the thinker produced in his final 15 years of life. Anderson aims ...