Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. 'Karl Marx: The Story of His Life' (German: 'Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens'), first… Representing Capital, Fredric Jameson's first book-length ...

In the opening lines of this book Michael Heinrich quotes from an 1868 letter in which Karl Marx mentions a publisher’s request for a biography. “Not only did I not send one”, said Marx, “I did not ...

Karl Marx died in 1883. In the more than 20 biographies written about him, most depict his final years as spent quietly waiting to die. Certainly he had enough personal and family health problems to ...

Depuis plus de 100 ans, la vie et l'oeuvre de Marx ont été l'objet de tellement d'écrits qu'on se demande ce que Jacques Attali, qui n'est pas un spécialiste du marxisme, peut en dire de nouveau. Il l ...

How was the ideology of Karl Marx shaped by his Jewish background? Over the past several years, Yale University Press has published a series of short biographies of eminent Jews, from Moses to Barbra ...

A half-century has passed since the first book appeared, and in the interim we have witnessed both the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, since the 1967 war (if not before), the ongoing colonization ...

As a child of the Cold War, I retain a reflexive disdain for Marxism, an ideology I believe negates the better angels of mankind’s nature while arming totalitarian zealots with a seductive gospel to ...

Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. 'Karl Marx: The Story of His Life' (German: 'Karl Marx. Geschichte seines Lebens'), first… ...

Karl Marx was a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist ...

Karl Marx, the father of international communism, was a devoted husband to his wife, Jenny, a daughter of Prussian and British aristocracy. In the newest Marx biography, "Love and Capital," author ...