B y some measures, Karl Marx (1818–83) is the most important of the modern philosophers, in the sense that it is impossible to understand the history of the 20th century without reference to his ...

Karl Marx is often understood to have dismissed morality as bourgeois ideology. But Vanessa Wills, author of the new book ...

Marxism is, at its core, not a moral philosophy, but a theory of politics and a political economy. As long as liberalism fails to produce that, it can never supplant Marxism or make Marxism redundant.

To Karl Marx, and thus to those who follow his philosophy, current human beings, such as they are, are a travesty of what they could, should, and had to become.

In the not-too-distant past, many Marxist philosophers were weighed down by a shared despair. Capitalism, they feared, had become so totalizing, so all-consuming, that there was no longer any ...

The famed Italian Marxist and political activist Antonio Negri has died at the age of 90. Negri inspired generations of leftist scholars and activists with his writings about the human desire for ...

The famed Italian Marxist and political activist Antonio Negri has died at the age of 90. Negri inspired generations of leftist scholars and activists with his writings about the human desire for ...