This article positively presents Classical Marxist Theory as one part of Classical Marxist Leninist ideology. I hope it will introduce the conceptual system and simultaneously show why it has the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reading a book by Terry Eagleton is like watching fireworks. The reader can become so delighted with the rhetorical pyrotechnics that the force of the argument is lost. But for all the literary razzle ...

Marx’s view of history powerfully shaped how we think about time and power, but it’s not the Bible’s view. Each outlandish story contributes to a broader ethos of conspiracism: a cynical and fearful ...

An introduction to historical materialism. A basic outline of the materialist conception of history, examining questions such as Marx and determinism and what he saw as the fundamental motor of ...

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 ...

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 ...