Reading Marx as the architect of Marxism can only lead to misunderstanding the man and his thought. This was the message of Jonathan Sperber’s Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (2013), a methodical ...

African American civil rights leader Malcolm X was assassinated inside Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom in New York on 1965. Also, ...

Grünheide, a small town on the outskirts of Berlin, has become the showcase of Brandenburg, an eastern German state ...

This financial instrument made quaint the kind of banking that Jimmy Stewart’s character does in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” whereby ... Although Marx himself never used the term “late ...

THESE MUSINGS are stirred by the arrival of the latest major Marx biography—Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life,by Jonathan Sperber (W. W. Norton, 672 pp., $35.00). Sperber is an expert on ...

BY BOB TOPPER When I first saw images of the German concentration camps—the starved, naked men and women on their way to the gas chambers—I was shocked and sickened. As a young teenager, I could not ...

A letter, written around 1880, to Karl Marx from the Executive Committee of the Russian Social Revolutionary Party of the People's Will. People's Will (or Narodnaya Volya) was a clandestine Narodnik ...

In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A rare copy of the publication sold at ...

Marxist theory would suggest that the first economic era in America’s history was “true capitalism,” the kind that Marx and Engels ... in “It’s a Wonderful Life,” whereby a small ...

And still others who despised the Fuhrer said nothing Karl Marx said, “History repeats itself ... By any measure, especially quality of life, autocratic and theocratic nations lag far behind. It is ...