W hen you put out into the world a new edition of Karl Marx’s Capital, a book that calls forth passionate debate as few others do, you should expect pushback. Our new English edition of volume one, ...

Welcome to the discussion guide for Michael Heinrich's Introduction to the Three Volumes of Karl Marx's Capital. This guide is meant for people with no prior knowledge that want to better understand ...

Postone claims that “the definitions [Marx] provides of abstract human labor in Capital, Chapter One, are very problematic. They seem to indicate that it is a biological residue, that it is to be ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Paul North and Paul Reitter on their new translation of Capital. Daniel Bessner and Derek Davison Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk ...

Down through the years one of the most persistent attacks on Karl Marx by the high priests of bourgeois economics—the ideological guardians of the profit system—has been his contention that, in the ...

“One basis for life and another basis for science is an a-priori lie” — Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, 1845. Base-superstructure theory is Marx’s most general theory, but is long ...

Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1, by Karl Marx. Edited by Paul North and Paul Reitter. Translated by Paul Reitter. Princeton University Press. 944 pages. $39.95. Our doomed thought ...

Capital is Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism. Capitalism is a mode of production, a historical social system (as were primitive communism, the slave states of Greece and Rome and feudalism). After ...

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 ...

Was Karl Marx a political thinker? It might seem like an odd question: What else would he be? Yet over the course of the 20th century, the answer came to seem less clear. Within a few years of the ...

Many scholars argue Karl Marx was an inevitable product of the Industrial Revolution, and its discontents. The influential philosopher, political theorist, and economist was born 200 years ago, this ...

It’s indisputably one of the most important works in history. Karl Marx’s Capital has been perennially embraced by those trying to understand and move beyond the capitalist system—and reviled in equal ...