Marx’s enduring appeal
Karl Marx’s ideas of public ownership of land, banks, enterprises and communications, progressive income tax, free education, economic planning, have little resonance in our country. For a large majority of…
Marx’s lieutenant
IT has become relatively commonplace in the past couple of decades to acknowledge the contemporary relevance of Karl Marx’s critiques of capitalism. Towards the very end of his entertaining biography…
Marx at 200
Karl Marx's 200th birth anniversary was marked on May 5, 2018. In Europe, the commemoration of the milestone evoked mixed responses, both for and against. Not surprisingly in the time…
Marx at 200: Germany torn over revolutionary’s legacy
As Germany prepares to mark Karl Marx's 200th birth anniversary, the revolutionary philosopher's legacy remains divisive more than a quarter century after the fall of the Berlin Wall. With scars…
Relevance of Marx today
“Philosophers have so far only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it”, says Karl Marx in his famous 11th and last thesis on Feuerbach.…
Marx lives
The title of this article may sound provocative, and I make no excuses for it. Karl Marx, and the brand of political theory and activism that followed in his wake,…
Imran’s Marxism
Imran Khan has been outed. What was suspected for some time has been confirmed: Imran is a closet Marxist. It is clear that Imran follows not the doctrinaire ideology of…
The war of liberation
What should we make of the War of Liberation of 1857 whose 166th anniversary is today – May 10? Looked at from the side of the freedom fighters it is…
Labour movements
AS we approach May Day, it is fitting to revisit its origins and the struggle of workers to achieve an eight-hour workday. American workers resorted to their first general strike…
The forgotten promise
“The state shall ensure the elimination of all forms of exploitation and the gradual fulfilment of the fundamental principle, from each according to his ability to each according to his…
