“My object,” Marx said, “is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.” “Communism begins where atheism begins.” Thus, as per my first column in this series, to Marx and his followers, history is a ...

FARGO — The ghost of Karl Marx has been hovering lately. Though often disguised, the vapory silhouette of a bearded man from the 1800s, whose ideas have led to countless human atrocities, still haunts ...

Europe had never seen anything like the Revolutions of 1848. Beginning in January of that year, a wave of uprisings (nearly 50 in all) convulsed the continent, creating instability from Paris to ...

When I read Cameron Hilditch’s review of my new book, The Devil and Karl Marx, I sighed and said to myself, “This is why our side loses.” Consider: I’ve written a 461-page book documenting the ...

Marxism refers to the school of thought inspired by Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism. Communism is a political system of government or a party that abolishes private property. Communism and Marxism ...

The major election year 2026 kicks off with a new mayor taking over Gotham on Jan. 1. From Sacramento to Minneapolis to New York, some candidates are peddling Karl Marx. The most glaring example is ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Brad DeLong points me to Noah Smith, who uses the occasion of Karl Marx’s 200th ...

The goal of this piece is to deeply explore fascism, essentially re-examining and reconstructing the understanding of its foundations—despite the potential resistance from ideological cults. By ...

Discover Friedrich Engels' role in shaping modern communism with Karl Marx, his influential works like The Communist ...

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“Marxism wasn’t a bad idea that went wrong. It was a bad idea.”—Richard Pipes, Communism. Communism failed everywhere, and oceans of blood were the result. Though dozens of attempts worldwide were ...