In response to questions about Marx’s relevance today, this week’s Economic Update explains how Marx’s criticism of capitalism was unique (more a micro-focused than a macro-focused analysis). It shows ...

Is Karl Marx woke? Surely, he is, right? After all, the right blames Marx for wokeism—cultural Marxism, they call it—and the left credits him with it. If two sides who can’t agree on anything agree on ...

A passage from Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" predicted that the economic crisis of 2008-09 would lead to communism. Famous dead people are good commentators on current events: They are no longer around to ...

Marx develops his characteristic understanding of the relation between theory and practice in the course of polemics which, in the 1840s, mark successive stages in his break with his erstwhile Young ...

Karl Marx's enduring ideas continue to resonate with students, offering critical lenses for understanding inequality, exploitation, and social justice. His quotes challenge conventional thinking on ...