No matter how hard the propaganda machine has tried to refute Marx’s analysis, his ideas have stood the test of time.
Subjects Archives: Marxism
200 Years later, why Marx remains relevant in an Indian context
The year 2018 marks the bicentenary of Karl Marx, a philosopher and thinker who is partially understood without being read by his critics.
“Bloody Gina,” the CIA, and the Senate
Why Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing was a democratic farce.
Dystopia: the live feed
Yesterday on the TV screen, I watched a beautiful black Israeli singer of Ethiopian origin sing ‘Halleluja’ as part of the festive opening ceremony of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem.
Karl Marx: forgotten man in Russia
Two hundred years after his birth, a handful of Russian academics want Karl Marx to be a household name.
Antonio Gramsci: Our Marx
Are we Marxists? Do Marxists exist? Stupidity, thou alone art immortal. The question will probably be taken up again over the next few days, the period around Marx’s centenary, and will bring forth rivers of ink and idiocy.
Karl Marx in Bangladesh, Part 2
Did Maulana Bhashani—the famous Red Maulana—ever read Marx? I recently asked this question to a prominent biographer of Bhashani—Syed Abul Maksud.
About the movie The young Karl Marx
This a very professional movie made by a leftist director (Raul Peck), starring a number of rather good actors. It covers the time between 1842, when Marx was the chief editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, and early 1848, when the “Communist Manifesto” was finished.
Audacious movements have to start
The following is the second part of the interview with Samir Amin. The first part was published in the Frontline issue dated May 11, 2018.
Karl Marx in Bangladesh, Part 1
No I am not talking about my encounter with the ghost of Karl Marx in Bangladesh.
Dossier 4: The people of Venezuela go to vote
The Venezuelan people will go to the polling stations across the country on Sunday, May 20th. This is the fifth presidential election since Hugo Chavez won the vote in 1998. It is the second since the death of Chavez in 2013.
Karl Marx: India’s freedom struggle too was influenced by Marxism
Friedrich Engels, while informing a common friend about Marx’s death in March 1883, wrote “…mankind is shorter by a head, and the greatest head of our time at that”.
Capitalism and the Expropriation of Nature: The Strategic Discourse of Ecosocialism with John Bellamy Foster
Ecological resistance in the twenty-first century has more and more been informed by the development of Marxian ecology and ecosocialism more generally.
Karl Marx and his conception of history
This is the bicentenary year of the birth of Karl Marx; and the best way of observing it is to recall the teachings of that great man—and act according to them.
Commemorative Karl Marx stamp celebrates economist’s 200th birthday
The German postal service has released a postage stamp, designed by visual artist Thomas Mayfried, to commemorate the 200th birthday of Karl Marx.
Marx’s critical friend
MARTIN ROWSON tells Ben Cowles what inspired him to create a comic-book version of The Communist Manifesto.
K is for Karl (Episode 4)
In the fourth episode of K is for Karl, Paul Mason travels to Manchester, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Here, Mason shows us how the use of human labour and the development of machinery brought about contemporary capitalism.
Marx at 200
A specter is haunting human affairs these days: it’s the thought that Karl Marx (on his 200th birthday this week) may have been more right than wrong about rich-get-richer bourgeois economics.
A new Marxian century
It’s not just that Marx’s ideas remain relevant — we’re also in the midst of a great new age of Marxian thought.
Karl Marx: ‘ruthless criticism of all that exists’
Two hundred years after Marx’s birth, the challenge is to reinterpret the world using his mode of thought and his method and in the process, critique the old interpretations which we have inherited.
