“All the old crap of the thirties is coming back again — the sh-t about the ‘class line,’ the ‘role of the working class,’ ...

Paul Mattick, Business As Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism. London: Reaktion Books, 2011. David McNally, Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance.

A new book by AJA Woods shows how the far-Right turned a niche academic theory into an all-purpose explanation for modern ...

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its satellite East European countries and the establishment of state capitalism in China and Vietnam in the name of socialism, it has been widely assumed that ...

"Never mind the collapse of the Soviet Union, feel the irony..." In this exclusive online essay taken from the current edition of the London Review of Books, Jenny Diski explores a new life of Marx in ...

Karl Marx’s theories, capitalism, and economic justice are not topics we regularly read about in children’s books. But a Welsh-language book aimed at children over the age of five explains them all – ...

THE RED PRUSSIAN, THE LIFE & LEGEND OF KARL MARX (422 pp.)— eopold Schwarzschlld—Scribner ($4). “If a name had to be found for the age in which we live,” says the author of this book, “we might safely ...

EVERYONE NOW recognizes that we are in the most severe crisis to hit the capitalist system in generations. The chief of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, recently declared that ...

"Hitherto, philosophers have sought to understand the world; the point, however, is to change it." Marx's celebrated over-statement attempted to build what might now be called an "impact requirement" ...

In the June issue of The New Criterion, Norman Cantor asserts that “[Lawrence] Stone was—and is—an English Marxist.” He goes on to imply that Lawrence Stone used his “extensive patronage powers” as ...