The Grundrisse was a set of notebooks Karl Marx wrote in 1857-58 while preparing for what would eventually become Capital.

Indifference was the world’s first reaction to Karl Marx’s magnum opus. In 1867, when the first volume of “Capital” was published in German, it was greeted with such silence that the ...

Around this time, Marx came to believe that capitalism was doomed, and he did what he could to hasten its demise. Together with his collaborator, Friedrich Engels, he wrote The Communist Manifesto ...

During the five or so years I spent translating Capital into English, I devoted a great deal of time to the task of re-rendering Marx’s conceptual vocabulary.Some of his key terms are built from ...

With new capital comes a new capitalism—perhaps one, finally, that Marx could warm to. Ryan Avent is a senior editor at The Economist and the author of The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and ...

We don't usually think of capital as an actor in itself, which may be why Das Kapital is the only classic work of Marx whose title we usually leave in German. It makes the concept seem alien ...

Kevin Anderson delves into Karl Marx’s final writings to unearth key ideas of critical importance for socialists today.

Translating Marx’s Capital might be daunting to some, but Paul North, professor of Germanic languages and literature at Yale, and Paul Reitter, professor of Germanic languages and literature at ...

Capitalism. When Karl Marx Made the Case for Capitalism In barely a century, capitalism led to more productivity "than have all preceding generations together," Marx and Friedrich Engels argued.

Marx himself suggested that capital’s “subsumption” of labor gave everyday life an illusory quality in which it seemed as though commodities were more real than the humans who made them.

Karl Marx’s Capital has been perennially embraced by those trying to understand and move beyond the capitalist system—and reviled in equal measure by those defending the established order. Yet, until ...