In 1845, Karl Marx declared :“philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it”. Change it he did. Political movements representing masses of new industrial ...

The revolutions in Russia and China were both, at least ostensibly, Marxist in character. The Second World War turned out in favour of the Allies partly because Hitler, blinded by his hatred of ...

We have been conditioned to associate Marxism with authoritarian political doctrines and corrupt economical policies. Many dictators and criminals of war have self-identified as Marxists and have used ...

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

Despite the general acceptance of Hegel's importance for Marx, virtually no one has paid sufficient attention to Marx's youthful critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Nature. Even Alfred Schmidt, whose ...

A new publication by the philosopher Prof. Dr. Kurt Bayertz from the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” addresses the philosophical roots of Karl Marx. 200 years after Karl Marx was born, ...

HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources IN THE 1950s, when the French geographer and political scientist André ...

The bicentennial of Karl Marx's birth is being marked in his German hometown amid similar controversy to that evoked by the revolutionary philosopher when he was alive. Viewed in the West as a deluded ...