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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a response to an article originally posted on the MIT Technology review . The article claims that the nature of capital has changed so much from the newly industrialized economies Marx knew ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism is clear—but is his analysis outdated? In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., ...