In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who co-opted their movement. By Thomas Meaney What good is one of the communist ...

If you think America won the Cold War, take a look at a new article in Teen Vogue headlined “Who is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar.” It praises the communist scholar’s critique of 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 ...

In the September 2000 issue of In These Times, Howard Zinn wrote this review of a book about the life of Karl Marx by Francis Wheen. On the 200 th anniversary of Marx’s birth, we present Zinn’s review ...

The illiberal view of progress has a terrible record. Maximilien Robespierre, architect of the Terror, invoked Rousseau; ...

If Karl Marx hadn't died in 1883, we can suppose he'd be used to being misunderstood and demonized by now. His story and his ideas are certainly more complex than many of us realize. Love and Capital: ...

Susanna Nicchiarelli’s “Nico, 1988,” about the German singer who performed with the Velvet Underground, made a splash at the Venice Film Festival in 2017 when it took top honors in the cutting-edge ...

What are the images you might conjure up if asked to think about The Communist Manifesto? Of the Soviet, Chinese and other communist revolutions? Of the propagation of a social theory exploited by ...

Hasan Piker argues Democrats are struggling to construct effective media narratives. On “Interesting Times,” he tells Ross Douthat why he thinks conservatives are better at pushing their message. By ...