Here, we've collected Paul D'Amato's biweekly columns on "The Meaning of Marxism" that look at the basic ideas and theories of the Marxist tradition and how to apply them in today's world. One of the ...

LEADERS of the 75 Communist parties meeting in Moscow—and those conspicuously absent—often argue bitterly about what their faith, Marxism, means. More interesting is the question of what Marxism does.

Interview with Gabriel Rockhill, author of Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? Gabriel Rockhill is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He ...

You may not hear as much now about Black Lives Matter as you did in the fateful year of 2020, but rest assured, it is still deeply affecting key aspects of our lives today. The divisive critical race ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The anime Karl Marx in the Chinese cartoon series 'The Leader'. Episodes have ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for greater efforts to adapt Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central ...

Nate Hawthorne reviews the book, Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism in which he disagrees with the author's treatment of Marxism. In this article I discuss the ...

[In what follows my prompts to the AI, ChatGPT, are in Italics. The AI’s responses appear in quotation marks. The text in brackets is commentary that I added after the fact. I have two aims. Further ...

What to read You can't keep a good theory down. Paul D'Amato's The Meaning of Marxism is a lively and accessible introduction to the ideas of Karl Marx, as well as other key Marxists, with historical ...

- the economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical ...