In a little villa at Haverstock Hill, the northwest portion of London, lives Karl Marx, the cornerstone of modern socialism.

I’m interested in learning more about someone whose ideas have fundamentally shaped 175 years of world history. But others are less enthused.

August Diehl is Karl Marx in The Orchard presentation of The Young Karl Marx. *“They can try to gag us, but they can not kill thought” and other philosophical script lines were in The Orchard ...

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.

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

In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., contends that Karl Marx’s Capital is unrivaled in its explanatory power ...