Karl Marx

Karl Marx Friedrich Engels

The declining rate of profit: Avoiding the key issue

William Jefferies — James Doughney’s latest contribution to the discussion on Marx’s tendency of the rate of profit to fall avoids the key point: the relationship between the proportional rise in the mass of physical capital and productivity rate rises.
declining profit graph

The declining rate of profit: Déjà vu all over again

James Doughney responds to William Jefferies critique of his article “Marx was wrong about the declining rate of profit. Isn’t it time we put this false idea to rest?”.
Marx working on blackboard

Was Marx wrong about the declining rate of profit?

William Jefferies — James Doughney’s attempted refutation of Karl Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall is thoughtful and thorough, but ultimately wrong.
Marx crisis

Marx was wrong about the declining rate of profit. Isn’t it time we put this false idea to rest?

James Doughney — Careful attention to Marx’s exposition of the theory of the declining rate of profit demonstrates that his theory is not coherent, even in its own terms.
Dollars versus Earth

To save the environment, we must end the profit system

Ian Angus talks about capitalism, metabolic rifts, degrowth and ecosocialism.
Feuerback and Marx

1843-1844: Marx’s Feuerbachian phase

Jason Devine — If Marx did not break with idealism thanks to Feuerbach, then the following questions arise: did Feuerbach actually influence Marx, and, if so, how?
From Karl Marx to Eco-Marxism

From Karl Marx to Eco-Marxism

Michael Löwy — Reflection on Marx’s contribution to an ecological perspective has made considerable progress in recent decades.
London, 30 March 2022, on the rally calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

Marx’s anti-colonialism, new sub-imperialisms and consistent internationalism in a bipolar world: An interview with Kevin B Anderson

Kevin B. Anderson discusses Marx and Lenin’s writings on imperialism, why the world is becoming more bipolar and the need for consistent anti-imperialism.
Vladimir Lenin

Lenin’s socialism: Labels and realities

Paul Le Blanc — Lenin's conception of socialism, which he shared with Marx and Engels, with Eugene V. Debs and Rosa Luxemburg, and with many others, remains a possible alternative to capitalism that is worth considering and fighting for.
Communist Manifesto

Intellectual and political lessons of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ for our time

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto was published in February, 1848. It is truly a part of what Marx called world literature that capitalism has given rise to.

Hegel Marx

The dialectic in the service of revolution

Ann Robertson — The dialectic is a powerful weapon for revolutionary socialists who seek to understand our surrounding world for the purpose of changing it.

Green Marx

Discovering a Green Marx: Kohei Saito’s 'Marx in the Anthropocene'

Ryan Moore — The days when Karl Marx’s ideas were assumed to be incompatible with environmentalism and in need of greening are thankfully past, thanks in no small part to Kohei Saito’s contributions.

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