Decades pass and, although Capital has often been described as an outdated text, the debate surrounding this book persists.

Excerpt and condensation of Chapter 6 from The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers by Robert L. Heilbroner, 7th ed., 1999. Robert Heilbroner's The ...

Karl Marx’s critique of political economy is oriented on an Aufhebung [a sublation] of classical political economy, for opening up the frontiers of its future as a science, aimed at self-emancipation ...

Many images of Karl Marx have been  formed through the ideological filters of many marxisms and of the ideologies opposed to them since the middle of the nineteenth century. One such image identifies ...

In the not-too-distant past, many Marxist philosophers were weighed down by a shared despair. Capitalism, they feared, had ...

Around 80,000 people attended the opening event on January 18 that launched Chemnitz's year as European Capital of Culture 2025, a title the eastern German city is sharing with Nova Gorica/Gorizia, ...

In it, he takes Marx's warning about unrestrained capitalism issued 150 years ago, to explain the climate crisis we now face.