Karl Marx
Q&A: Shlomo Avineri On What We Get Wrong About Karl Marx
“In many cases, positions that are attributed to Marx are not his positions.”
Want To See Chomsky, Rand, Marx And Musk Argue About Technology? Now You Can — In A Puppet Show
If you ever wished your critical theory professor would be replaced by a group of dapper, miniaturized historical figures who sometimes rap, read on.
Jewish Rebels Once Dreamed Of Peace On Earth. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Despite its origins in the work of the Jewish Karl Marx, communism never served the Jewish people particularly well.
In ‘The Young Karl Marx’ Raoul Peck Found The Man Behind The Myth. He Told Us How.
Raoul Peck’s latest film, “The Young Karl Marx,” is a story of clashing ideas.
Why That Catastrophic Pepsi Ad Was Actually A Resounding Success
The Kendall Jenner Pepsi advertisement is considered an outright failure – here’s why it was actually a massive success for corporations everywhere
Were Marx And Engels The Original Odd Couple?
Raoul Peck, director of “I Am Not Your Negro,” also recently released a film about the young Karl Marx.
Germany's Inferiority Complex and the Holocaust
The Holocaust was the result of much more than anti-Semitism. Historian Gotz Aly argues that it had its roots in German insecurity and envy.
How a French Economics Prof Became U.S. Pop Idol
Author-economist Thomas Piketty speaking at University of California-Berkeley, April 23, 2014 / Getty Images
A Jewish Philosopher’s Love, Loss and Solace
The German Jewish philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885–1977), not to be confused with the Swiss Jewish composer Ernest Bloch, is still remembered for such landmark books as “The Spirit of Utopia,” “The Principle of Hope,” and “The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays.”
How Jews Can Defend Animals without Invoking Treblinka
French Jewish philosopher Élisabeth de Fontenay has published books on Jewish themes, such as 1973’s “The Jewish Faces of Karl Marx” (Les figures juives de Marx) from Les editions Galilée, and on animal rights, such as 1998’s philosophical inquiry “The Silence of Animals” from Les éditions Fayard or 2008’s “Without Offending Mankind” from Les éditions Albin Michel. In March though, Les éditions du Seuil published Fontenay’s “Birth Certificates” (Actes de naissance) a book of conversations with journalist Stéphane Bou, which addresses both themes.