Søren Mau’s Mute Compulsion offers a unique and relatable entry into the social and economic dimensions of modern Marxist thought. Ask any two Marxists to define Marxism, and you will likely get at ...

LEADERS of the 75 Communist parties meeting in Moscow—and those conspicuously absent—often argue bitterly about what their faith, Marxism, means. More interesting is the question of what Marxism does.

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 ...

[In what follows my prompts to the AI, ChatGPT, are in Italics. The AI’s responses appear in quotation marks. The text in brackets is commentary that I added after the fact. I have two aims. Further ...

Student protests at universities across the U.S. are ostensibly related to the Hamas attacks on Oct. 7 and Israel’s military response. But there’s something else that’s being blamed for the uprisings: ...

How did Marxism become Marxism? A new book examines a set of thinkers and activists who helped transform a set of radical ideas into a political tradition. In the years leading up to the outbreak of ...

In defiance of predictions, American Marxism has survived and even flourished, notably in universities. This institutional ...

The Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony has written a lucid and penetrating essay about how Marxism manifests itself in our time and place — and how we should meet its challenge. He begins by pointing out ...

More than one hundred years after the socialist movement split into warring Marxist and anarchist factions, there are signs, at least on a small scale, that people calling themselves anarchists and ...

Former President Donald Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of being a Marxist at the first presidential debate Tuesday. “Everything that she believed three years ago and four years ago is out ...

Republican politicians like to use the term ‘Marxist’ to criticize Democrats. Lately, they’ve dubbed New York City mayoral candidate a... How Marxism went from philosophy to cudgel ANNOUNCER: NPR.