In fact, in many ways, Lenin turned Marx on his head by placing politics over economics when he argued that Russia had gone through its capitalist stage of history and was ready for a second ...

In Western Marxism, Domenico Losurdo takes 20th-century European and American Marxists to task for unfairly dismissing ...

Marxism, by contrast ... t have to do “the concrete analysis of the concrete situation,” in Vladimir Lenin’s phrase. You know that, at worst, you might slow down the transition, and at ...

This is not what happened, of course. Lenin adapted Marxism to suit his needs, and with the help of Communist sympathizers in the United States, Communism was implemented top-down in underdeveloped ...

By Krishna Jha It was the beginning of the last century. Transition was already in the process. The context in Russia was ...

Hons and Rebels” might easily be mistaken for a freewheeling memoir of aristocratic life. It’s also a study of intense ...

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Marxism as an intellectual movement has been one of the most important and fertile contributions to twentieth-century thought. No ...

Harris, a Marxist economist, lives just a two miles away from his daughter in Washington D.C., but the two rarely speak. The chilly relations stretch back to Harris’ divorce from Kamala’s ...

In 1917, Russia became the first country to put the communist experiment into practice, when Lenin’s Marxist Bolshevik movement overthrew the Tsarist regime and established the Union of Soviet ...

McQueen’s latest blunders also show what happens when you repudiate the living idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat as ...

The DPRK, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, is one of the most misunderstood and maligned countries in the world. In the ...

In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., contends that Karl Marx’s Capital is unrivaled in its explanatory power ...