This question of the status of universality, whether attacked by its opponents as “white male,” or “Eurocentric,” or a “master discourse,” is today at the center of the current ideological debate, as ...
To a carpenter with a hammer,” it has been said, “every problem looks like a nail.” To Karl Marx, assembling communism from a wild and variegated international socialism, every social problem in the ...
Instead of discussing Marxism in general I propose to deal at once with some of the most effective points of Marxist theory and practice. Only such an approach conforms with the principle of Marxian ...
In 1867, Europe’s intellectual elite was captivated by Marx’s Das Kapital. Meanwhile, no one had heard of 31-year-old Carl ...
In last week’s column about critical race theory, I said that I had barely scratched the surface of this complex movement. To dig deeper, I turned to a collection of essays by the movement’s founders ...
While paying homage to Marx for his profound understanding of “the laws of motion of the capitalist mode of production,” most contemporary economists argue that, nonetheless, his economic analysis ...
It’s for these reasons that I declined to publish my critique in the Federalist. It’s a platform used for hate and outrage on ...
Biographies come in two kinds. The first and more conventional kind portrays the hero as an exception, a genius or a rebel against his time. (I say “his” time because traditional biographies ...
This article first appeared on page 26 of Issue 21. You probably don’t think about Marxism when you think about Bitcoin. To most people, Marx is known as the guy who didn’t like private property and ...