"Capitalism has two ways of dealing with leisure, stigmatizing it within an ideology of unemployment, or taking it up into itself to ma...

Paul Krugman: Over the weekend Donald Trump threatened dire vengeance on Iran unless its government opened the Strait of Hormuz within 48 ho...

This excerpt is from chapter 26 of Ludwig Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity, tranlated to English by Marian Evans (George Eliot). ...

I have been puzzled by the term 'revolution' since the 1970s when I started reading Marx's work. In the past few years my puzzle...

"The modern ancien regime is rather merely the clown of a world order whose real heroes are dead." -- Karl Marx,  Contribution to...

 Accumulating disposable time by Alexis Moraitis For Marx, the same historical dynamic that produces ever-greater levels of human superfluit...

One hundred and fifty-eight years ago, Karl Marx wrote to Friedrich Engels to kvetch about the reviews of volume one of Capital . Marx enum...

Between 1857 and 1867 Karl Marx wrote four drafts of what would become the first volume of Das Kapital . The presumed third draft of volume ...

In The Theory of the Leisure Class , Thorstein Veblen coined a number of terms that have become terms of art: conspicuous consumption, consp...

Economic “growth” is a euphemism for the desired outcome of government and corporate policies to countermand chronic overproduction intrinsi...

I had a chat with Grok yesterday about the indictment of Letitia James. Grok's first two answers regurgitate convicted felon Sam Antar...