Talk given at the International Socialist Forum on 7 March, 1999. This is yet another instalment of a long-term project: to re-examine what Marx was doing, as far as possible without the prejudices of ...

For Marx, there are no iron laws, history is formed by the relationship between the material forces and social relations of production One of the common objections that has been raised in the ...

One of the most common phrases to be heard from those on “the left” is the assertion that someone or some public policy is or is not on “the right side of history.” It has almost become a mantra by ...

Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks. The reader can become so delighted with the rhetorical pyrotechnics that the force of the argument is lost. But for all the literary razzle ...

Quote of the Day: A powerful Quote of the Day often transcends its historical moment to offer insight into contemporary political, social and economic realities. Among the most frequently cited ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Per its introduction, Paul Kengor’s new book, The Devil and Karl Marx, “deals with the grim, disturbing, militant atheism and ...

... I think that we are now in a mood, determined by the present conditions produced by social development, to look more objectively, without taking sides, at that ...

Marx and Engels are arguably history's most famous couple. Such was the closeness of their collaboration that it is not always easy to recall which works bore both names, which just that of Marx, and ...