One of the most common charges leveled at Marxists is that, for all their atheistic pretensions, they retain a quasi-religious faith in the revolutionary dispensation of working class dictatorship.

Marx grew up in a middle-class German family, with rabbi ancestors on both sides, but his father converted to Christianity for practical reasons. (Karl in fact was baptized at the age of six.) ...

The year 2018—the bicentenary of Marx’s birth—will be characterized, above all, by an immense intensification of social tensions and an escalation of class conflict around the world.

In 1905, and later in 1917, the Russian working class, by the formation of Soviets, or workers councils, laid the basis of a new type of social organization. It was by his studies of Marx's analysis ...

Barker bears the torch with arguments as deathless as they are wrong. His fundamental postulate is that Marx correctly analyzed capitalism as class warfare, the eternal conflict between exploiters and ...

May Day 2018 is invested with special significance, because we are celebrating not only the day of international working-class solidarity, but also the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx.

Science & Society, Vol. 59, No. 3, Lenin: Evaluation, Critique, Renewal (Fall, 1995), pp. 268-297 (30 pages) A close textual and contextual analysis of Lenin's claim, in What Is to Be Done? t that ...