An extract from Marx's 1844 Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts on the process of alienation of the worker from their work. ... We now have to grasp the essential connection between private ...

Karl Marx didn’t live to see the rise of artificial intelligence, but he had a good sense of where things might be heading. Writing in the thick of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution, Marx was ...

Labor Day is a good time to reflect on ethics and the economy. Honest, hard-working people should be able to earn enough money to live decent lives. There is something corrupt about wealth that is ...

The human race lives in a terrible contradiction. Quite obviously, there is enough wealth to create a decent life for every person on the planet. Yet, billions suffer deprivation and are denied basic ...

Thinking of the relevance of Karl Marx on the 200th anniversary of his birth on 5 May 1818, takes me back to a wonderful picture of him in Algeria. It was taken in his final year in 1882. Underneath ...

Is Marxism is the solution to all capitalism’s problems. Or a threat to America’s soul. To some, Marxism is the solution to all capitalism’s problems. To others, it’s a major threat to democracy. But ...

Written during the winter of 1857-8, the "Grundrisse" was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory. A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both ...