I was really rather surprised by this from Mark Thoma, the idea that capitalism (or, to be more accurate, this blend of capitalism and markets that we actually have) does not create a mechanism to ...

Karl Marx's 19th-century metaphor vividly critiques capitalism, describing capital as "dead labor" that thrives by exploiting ...

If you think America won the Cold War, take a look at a new article in Teen Vogue headlined “Who is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar.” It praises the communist scholar’s critique of the ...

Is capitalism in crisis? That is what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said recently, more precisely she said that we are witnessing a “crisis of late stage capitalism.” Others seem to agree. So ...

In my view, Karl Marx's analysis of capitalism is really powerful and important. I think the best formulation of this analysis is in his book Capital, Volume 1. Joseph Kay recently wrote a blog post ...

This month marks the bicentennial of an unusually consequential birth: Karl Marx, who entered the world on May 5, 1818. China’s president marked the anniversary by celebrating the man whose ideology ...

Author’s Note: The following is an abridged and edited passage from the first chapter of my Invisible Leviathan: Marx’s Law of Value in the Twilight of Capitalism, published by Haymarket Books in 2019 ...

What does today's quote of the day by Karl Marx mean? Read the Quote of the Day by Karl Marx, its meaning, how to apply it in ...

Karl Marx's quote, "Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity," encapsulates ...

The term “late-stage capitalism” has lately been on everyone’s lips. I hear the description from friends concerned with economics and a very hip, tattooed Brooklynite who sold me a pair of vintage ...

KARL MARX, the founder of materialistic socialism, is recognized by economists as one of the three or four greatest minds who have contributed to the progress of economic science. What he did was to ...