“Marxism wasn’t a bad idea that went wrong. It was a bad idea.”—Richard Pipes, Communism. Communism failed everywhere, and oceans of blood were the result. Though dozens of attempts worldwide were ...

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Marx’s first crusade was not against capitalism but against soap. I guess every time he had to take a shower, he was too drunk to do it. Otherwise, he always lived off of other people’s money, he ...

I was recently taken aback by a lengthy piece that I read (very oddly) in The Wall Street Journal. Jacob Berger is a professor of philosophy at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. He ...

Europe had never seen anything like the Revolutions of 1848. Beginning in January of that year, a wave of uprisings (nearly 50 in all) convulsed the continent, creating instability from Paris to ...

Central to Karl Marx’s vision of the good society is the idea that people fully flourish only in meeting the needs of others. Much contemporary left thought focuses on what is wrong with capitalism.

Grimes claims her public reading of "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx was all a lark, but Marxism has a very real hold on the public imagination -- and racks up big views on TikTok.

In the early 1980s, I attended graduate school at Brown University. Then, only two Soviet-born and raised students were at Brown. I was from Kiev and Boris was from Odessa, both cities of the former ...

Before you are tempted to do this, I want to explain the basic definition of Marxism, since I think many people don’t understand what it really is. Marxism is defined as “the political and economic ...

“My object,” Marx said, “is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.” “Communism begins where atheism begins.” Thus, as per my first column in this series, to Marx and his followers, history is a ...