First published a century and a half ago, Karl Marx's work 'Das Kapital' is still read today. Its German author was the first economist to take on globalization, says Bernd Ziesemer in an interview ...
Two hundred years after he was born, Karl Marx is still causing controversy. The donation of a statue by the People’s Republic of China to commemorate the anniversary of his birth Saturday in the ...
Editor’s Note: Mary Gabriel is author of “Love and Capital, Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution” (Little, Brown and Company), a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award. There are few ...
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Marx, Dostoevsky and God
When you remove the divine, you open the door to the idea that the ends justify the means.
LEGENDARY philosopher Karl Marx completed changed the way we see the world, and created a host of revolutionary theories which are still around today. But who was he and what happened to him? Born 5 ...
Happy birthday! It’s tempting to say that much has changed in the 200 years since your birth, but as I sit down to describe those changes, I must admit I am more struck by the similarities than the ...
Communism offers redemption and moral intensity without the restraints of religion.
Reporting from Berlin — A specter is haunting Germany — the specter of Karl Marx. A curious debate has erupted just as the hometown of communism’s founding father is about to celebrate the 200th ...
Karl Marx was born 200 years ago and to celebrate, an exhibition in his hometown Trier looks at his life and work. DW spoke to historian Beatrix Bouvier to learn why Marx remains a relevant, if ...
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