BERLIN – A larger than life statue of Communist philosopher Karl Marx will soon be unveiled on the 200th anniversary of his birth in the western German town of Trier. Saturday's celebratory ...

Karl Marx was born more than two centuries ago, in 1818, and, given the enormous impact of his ideas, it should hardly surprise us that we are still trying to make sense of his life and legacy.

On May 5, 1818, in the southern German town of Trier, in the picturesque wine-growing region of the Mosel Valley, Karl Marx was born. At the time Trier was one-tenth the size it is today, with a ...

A new biography presents him not as a clockwork economic determinist but rather as a ... How was the ideology of Karl Marx shaped by his Jewish background? Over the past several years, ...

News about Karl Marx, ... Just Ask a 500-Year-Old German Peasant. ... A new biography of Karl Marx emphasizes his responses to events, not his body of ideas.

Sheelah Kolhatkar reviews Mary Gabriel’s book “Love and Capital,” about Karl Marx’s relationship with his wife, Jenny, and how she helped Marx to write his famous works.

In the September 2000 issue of In These Times, Howard Zinn wrote this review of a book about the life of Karl Marx by Francis Wheen.On the 200 th anniversary of Marx’s birth, we present Zinn’s ...