Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

When Karl Marx died in March 1883, only about a dozen people attended his funeral at a cemetery in London, England, including family members. Yet, for more than a century after his death – and even ...

[This article is part of a short series on Marxism and its relevance for left resistance in today’s challenging geopolitical and ecological climate, and for the continuing effort to win a better world ...

One of the most common phrases to be heard from those on “the left” is the assertion that someone or some public policy is or is not on “the right side of history.” It has almost become a mantra by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The political theorist wrote with the intention of changing the world (Getty) By some measures, Karl Marx (1818–83) is the most ...

Though written more than 150 years ago, The Communist Manifesto remains the best introduction to the revolutionary ideas of Karl Marx. Haymarket Books has produced an outstanding new edition of the ...

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. John Spargo was a founding member, intellectual and editor of the Socialist Party of America in… An email exchange between members of the SWP and others ...

Policy makers struggling to understand the barrage of financial panics, protests and other ills afflicting the world would do well to study the works of a long-dead economist: Karl Marx. The sooner ...

It’s unfortunate the author of a letter published in The Morning Call on Aug. 31 considered my piece on Karl Marx’s racism alarmist. It was merely factual. Marx’s racial ideas did bleed into the ...

Reporting from Berlin — A specter is haunting Germany — the specter of Karl Marx. A curious debate has erupted just as the hometown of communism’s founding father is about to celebrate the 200th ...

There are tens of thousands of pages in the four hefty volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital: Critique of Political Economy, more commonly referred to as Das Kapital. The first volume of the opus—where Marx ...