Marx contributed the central propositions of the Manifesto, which embody the materialist conception of history, or historical materialism. This theory was later explicitly formulated in Marx's ...

in his dialectical materialist theory of history, and even more important, in his pessimistic analysis of the outlook for a capitalist economy. What was Marx's prognosis for the capitalist system ...

In the first English translation in half a century, Paul Reitter and Paul North distill the essence of the Marxist ...

Marx rejected the idealism of Hegel and developed a more materialistic theory of history as science, ultimately predicting that the triumph of the working class was inevitable. With his ...

BY BOB TOPPER When I first saw images of the German concentration camps—the starved, naked men and women on their way to the gas chambers—I was shocked and sickened. As a young teenager, I could not ...

He was wrong about the solution—but he anticipated the discontent spawned by a digital economy and its elite overseers.

As most economists have known since the late 19th century, Marx built his system on an erroneous theory of value. He prophesied the coming immiseration of the working classes under a perpetual ...

Marxist theory would suggest that the first economic era in America’s history was “true capitalism,” the kind that Marx and Engels wrote about. It started with the industr i al revolution.