Karl Marx

Drawn to communities of German socialist expatriates in the area, Marx once considered making his way to Texas.

Although Karl Marx never saw the U.S., he thought long and hard about how it fit into his theory, especially during the Civil War.

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.

The 1850s were a turning point for globalization, from telegraphs to colonization.

The transatlantic convergence of two revolutionaries.

At universities, American Marxism has led to good scholarship, but it’s also encouraged hyper-specialization and the use of impenetrable jargon.

The key measure of a healthy economy has long been growth, yet if production and consumption expand at their current rate we risk the health of the planet.

An intellectual history of inequality in economic theory reveals the ideological reasons behind the field’s resurgence in the last few decades.

Leftists have regarded Lincoln as a pro-labor hero who helped vanquish chattel slavery. We should celebrate him today within the radical democratic tradition.

The crisis that Federici identified in the 1970s has reached a boiling point.

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?

Senator Joseph McCarthy built his reputation on fear-mongering, smear campaigns, and falsehoods about government employees and their associates.

We see what we want to see from philosophers such as Locke not because he wrote for our time (or “all time”) but because we imagine he did.

A truly Christian postliberalism would imagine and enact an alternative modernity with a different standard of progress.

Should equality, instead of another political ideal, should be at the center of our politics?

New books examine the place of work in our lives—and how people throughout history have tried to change it.

Free trade has been defended primarily by neoliberals who cared little about social justice or democracy. An examination of its history paints a different picture.

Christian moralists long promoted hobbies as a way to occupy idle hands, bringing the work ethic into free time. Today hobbies risk turning into side hustles.

The strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism.

In contrast to feudal society, where everyone, lord or serf, remained rooted to the land, and words were ‘passed on'.