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

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

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

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.

THE RED PRUSSIAN, THE LIFE & LEGEND OF KARL MARX (422 pp.)— eopold Schwarzschlld—Scribner ($4). “If a name had to be found for the age in which we live,” says the author of this book, “we might safely ...

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 ...

Karl Marx was a philosopher and revolutionary who, with Friedrich Engels, wrote "The Communist Manifesto," a pamphlet that provided a platform for the European socialist and communist parties during ...