The revolutions in Russia and China were both, at least ostensibly, Marxist in character. The Second World War turned out in favour of the Allies partly because Hitler, blinded by his hatred of ...

The bicentennial of Karl Marx's birth is being marked in his German hometown amid similar controversy to that evoked by the revolutionary philosopher when he was alive. Viewed in the West as a deluded ...

Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, a city in present-day Germany. He was a philosopher, economist, historian, and political theorist. He is best known for developing Marxism, a theory that looks at ...

This is a review of: Anneliese Griese, Hans Jörg Sandkühler (Hrsg.) [Eds.], Karl Marx–Zwischen Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften [Karl Marx–between philosophy and the natural sciences], Frankfurt/M.

How was the ideology of Karl Marx shaped by his Jewish background? Over the past several years, Yale University Press has published a series of short biographies of eminent Jews, from Moses to Barbra ...

Young intellectuals smoking cigars, playing chess and trading philosophical barbs between moves in the mid-19th century may not seem like the makings of compelling cinema. But when situated in a ...

BERLIN — A larger than life statue of Communist philosopher Karl Marx was unveiled Saturday on the 200th anniversary of his birth in the western German town of Trier. The celebratory uncovering of the ...

The 4.4 metres (14 feet) high bronze statue of Karl Marx, created by Chinese artist Wu Weishan and donated by China is unveiled to mark the 200th birth anniversary of the German philosopher in his ...

It was back in 2004 that Bucks County actor Robert Weick first stepped into the role of Karl Marx in the one-man show “Marx in Soho.” His sold-out run at the Iron Age Theatre in Norristown led to a ...