I regard my hometown of Palo Alto — once a sleepy middle-class suburb, now Silicon Valley’s globally renowned epicenter — with a mix of ambivalence and affection. Malcolm Harris, the author of the 700 ...

Dear Comrades Steiner and Brenner: The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) has asked that I reply to your document, “Objectivism or Marxism,”* on its behalf. This is a task that ...

Talk given at the International Socialist Forum on 7 March, 1999. This is yet another instalment of a long-term project: to re-examine what Marx was doing, as far as possible without the prejudices of ...

“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” This insightful remark was made by George Orwell in his chillingly prophetic, dystopian novel, 1984. Over the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Per its introduction, Paul Kengor’s new book, The Devil and Karl Marx, “deals with the grim, disturbing, militant atheism and ...

Quote of the Day: A powerful Quote of the Day often transcends its historical moment to offer insight into contemporary political, social and economic realities. Among the most frequently cited ...

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 ...