Americans don't much like each-other and many are willing to fight each other over their differences. But what do the opposing factions believe in? When it comes to economic systems and whether ...

Karl Marx said a workers' revolution was inevitable but by the end of the 19th century, it had failed to materialize. In response, some of his followers began developing an important strain of Marxist ...

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Speaking Frankly | Socialism," in the video player above. Just what is socialism? It was a buzzword in the 2020 election season, having sprung up dozens of times ...

People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation poll says, "College students prefer socialism to capitalism." Why? Because they believe absurd myths. Like the claim that the Soviet Union ...

Socialism is capitalism’s critical shadow. When lights shift, a shadow may seem to disappear, but sooner or later, with further shifts of light, it comes back. Capitalism’s ideologues have long ...

The share of registered voters with positive views of capitalism has dropped under 50% for the first time in seven years of NBC News polling on the issue — a shift that comes as some democratic ...

Voluntary transactions between consumers, firms, employees, and investors and direction using coercive commands, or capitalism and socialism, provide alternative ways to organize an economy. America’s ...

Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History ranges impressively over time and space, from medieval Yemen to modern-day Cambodia. But we need a clearer political economy of capitalism to make sense of ...

Capitalism’s recurring crises have long fueled predictions of its inevitable demise. Vivek Chibber explains why breakdown isn’t guaranteed — and why political agency, not historical laws, will ...

People criticize capitalism. A recent Axios-Generation poll says, "College students prefer socialism to capitalism." Socialism guru Noam Chomsky tells students that. He says the Soviet Union "was ...