"PHILOSOPHERS HAVE only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it." So wrote Karl Marx in his Theses on Feuerbach when he had reached the ripe-old-age of 27. Yet Marx and his ...
Marx, Engels and Luxemburg were all keen to return to the egalitarian relations of primitive communism, at a higher level. But how does the egalitarianism of early human societies connect up with ...
Whatever epithets Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter use to assail President Obama and his agenda -- socialist, communist, Marxist -- it's a safe bet they won't call him an "Engelsist" or accuse him of ...
Friedrich Engels wasn't born a revolutionary, but over the course of several beer-soaked days in Paris, he became part of "the greatest friendship in Western political thought." Author and historian ...
Europe had never seen anything like the Revolutions of 1848. Beginning in January of that year, a wave of uprisings (nearly 50 in all) convulsed the continent, creating instability from Paris to ...
Friedrich Engels has been undeservedly “airbrushed from history,” says historian Tristram Hunt. Though his name is ritually invoked in any discussion of Marxism’s origins, the man and his pioneering ...
FRIEDRICH EXCELS—Gustav Mayer— Knopf ($3.50). The two famed dead men of whom present-day Germany is least proud are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Though in Naziland their names are a byword and a ...
We all know Karl Marx as the bushy beard, as “Das Kapital,” as the “ism,” as “The Communist Manifesto…” But, thanks to a new film, we’ll soon get to know Karl Marx the man, or, at least, a hilariously ...
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