Karl Korsch identifıes in Marx’s work what he calls “the principle of historical specifıcation,” the way in which “Marx comprehends all things social in terms of a defınite historical epoch.” This ...

Wonder Land: Whether it’s members of Congress, protesters in the street, even golf tournaments—it’s hard not to notice the rising tide of jerk-like behavior ...

Regarding the July 31 Herald Forum column by Ken W. White regarding Critical Race Theory, and his opinion that CRT should be taught in schools. CRT is not a new concept, it is a divisive Marxist ...

The question of democratic rights--both how the left can struggle against restrictions on ours and whether our protests against right-wingers are infringing on theirs--has featured prominently and ...

Among the medieval Jews, there was an interpretive tradition called the Tosafat in which successive generations of Jewish scholars commentate on verses and older commentaries. A page of a Tosafat book ...

This Saturday, May 5, marks the bicentennial of Karl Marx’ birth, a cause for literal celebration in various quarters of the academy. Well, that merely affirms the point. The vast majority of those ...

Between 1961 and 1965 ‘Socialisme ou Barbarie’ published (in its issues 36-40) an important article by Paul Cardan entitled ‘Marxisme et ThÈorie RÈvolutionnaire’. Part I dealt with ‘the historical ...

LET us begin with Marx and Engels. What was the role assigned to literature and art in the system of Dialectical Materialism? This role was much less cut-and-dried than is nowadays often supposed.

This thread would be a lot more interesting people bothered to read even Marx alone. Marx, Lenin, et al., talked extensively of the process of turning capitalist economies into socialist economies.