BERLIN (Reuters) - Two decades after the Berlin Wall fell, communism's founding father Karl Marx is back in vogue in eastern Germany -- thanks to the global financial crisis. His 1867 critical ...

What good is one of the communist thinker’s most important texts to 21st-century readers? Credit...Jack Smyth Supported by By James Miller James Miller teaches at the New School for Social Research.

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

In November 1864, Karl Marx wrote a letter congratulating President Abraham Lincoln on his reelection to the White House. "From the commencement of the titanic American strife the workingmen of ...

According to John Cassidy’s century-spanning history Capitalism and Its Critics, the system lives on because of its antagonists. In 2008, on the precipice of the global financial crisis, the British ...