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Communism: Karl Marx to Joseph Stalin | CES at UNC

Though Marx died well before a government tested his theories, his writings ... take control of the country and pull Russia out of the war. Lenin also ...

Marx and the Indigenous - Monthly Review

In all of this work, Marx moved away from a Eurocentric and developmentalist lens. His concern with settler colonialism reached into the ...

Marxism and Consumer Culture | New Labor Forum - CUNY

... took fresh stock of the quasi- Marxist critique of consumer culture. ... As Marx laid it out, the fetishism of the commodity was, and remains ...

Defending Marx and Braverman: taking back the labour process in ...

Writing his 1974 book Labour and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century, US Marxist and political economist ...

Karl Marx | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Karl Marx was a political theorist and philosopher. He published “The Communist Manifesto” with Friedrich Engels. His works were burned in Nazi Germany in ...

Marx on Social Class - University of Regina

Peasantry and Farmers. Marx considered the peasantry to be disorganized, dispersed, and incapable of carrying out change. Marx also expected ...

Marx after communism - The Economist

When he wanted to be, Marx was a compelling writer, punching out first-rate epigrams at a reckless pace. The closing sentences of “The Communist ...

Taking on 'Capital' Without Marx - In These Times

This demonstration has given sustenance to liberal outrage as it drives the Wall Street Journal apoplectic. The book has often been presented as ...

Henry Ford and Karl Marx - The Atlantic

Marx was an economic diagnostician. He toiled away trying to discover the causes of the industrial degradation of England and of the world, helpless to relieve ...

Karl Marx: The Almost Capitalist | Center for Economic & Social Justice

Extend the benefits of capitalism to all mankind.” Instead, he exhorted the workers of the world to unite and “throw off the chains” of capitalism. Had Marx ...

Karl Marx Meets the Devil: A Conversation with Historian Paul Kengor

They finally cut him off, and then it was left to Engels to subsidize him, and Engels was offended at how Marx did this, but Engels did so ...

Karl Marx Was a Pretty Bad Person - Intellectual Takeout

Marx found it too burdensome to grind out the expected two articles per week, for which he was relatively well paid. Instead, he spent his time ...

Marx on Nature, Labour and History: General Overview

Alienation means that our world is taken away from us, or that it comes to operate as though we are entirely subject to it, in other words that we lose control ...

Marx's Dream: From Capitalism to Communism, Rockmore

With Marx's Dream, Tom Rockmore offers a much-needed alternative view, distinguishing rigorously between Marx and Marxism. Rockmore breaks with the Marxist view ...

Estranged Labour, Marx, 1844

We have started out from the premises of political economy. We have accepted its language and its laws. We presupposed private property; the separation of ...

Marx's Capital: Chapters 15 - The Machine - The Communist

... taking advantage of relatively low wages to employ many workers in ... away with all repose, all fixity and all security as far as the ...

Abolition of private property? - Communist Party USA

... taking away their political power, as well ... As Marx says, under capitalism, "private property has already been ...

When Karl Marx Made the Case for Capitalism - Reason Magazine

In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.

Taking On Adam Smith (and Karl Marx) - The New York Times

His work is a challenge both to Marxism and laissez-faire economics, which “both count on pure economic forces for harmony or justice to prevail ...

Towards a Marxist theory of alienation for the 21st century

The approach I take in this article is based on an understanding of Marx's ... out the empirical and sociological implications of the ...