Marxism is a social, political, and economic philosophy named after the 19th century German philosopher and economist Karl Marx. His work examines the historical effects of capitalism on labor ...

How did Marxism become Marxism? A new book examines a set of thinkers and activists who helped transform a set of radical ideas into a political tradition. In the years leading up to the outbreak ...

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Marxism sparked most of the worst mass murders of modern times, erased culture, defiled religion, and has served as a great evil cloaked in the garb of a caring and compassionate good. While the Left ...

In histories of Marxism, Karl Korsch’s name is often linked with that of Georg Lukács. Two Central European intellectuals, from Germany and Hungary, respectively, Korsch and Lukács were both ...

Some accept this legacy as an obvious and regrettable historical fact, while others run from it and posit an alternative dissemination mechanism for an intellectual Marxism that claims to be untainted ...

MANY readers of NATURE will ask what Marxism has to do with biology. It would be possible to write a volume on the economic influences which have done much to determine the course of biological ...

Marxism therefore rests on a conceptual incoherence that renders the ‘higher’ society to which it aspires an indefensible social and political goal. Such, in essence, is the argument at the centre of ...

Global Marxism is an engaging look at the creative breadth of Marxism in the national-liberation era, but needed more critical reflection on its limitations, argues Dominic Alexander The revolutionary ...

In defiance of predictions, American Marxism has survived and even flourished, notably in universities. This institutional ...

As each of these arguments itself falls into two major parts, there are four contentions here: (1) that the authors caricature Marxism by their habitual procedure of confronting it with spurious, ...