The American promise of equality is a lie – a false claim often made by politicians during election campaigns. The truth is ...

On this week’s episode of Economic Update, Professor Wolff provides updates on Medicare advantage and “pre-authorization” as a way to reduce Medicare payments, liberals and radicals split over Mamdani ...

In a recent essay in The Nation, Wendy Brown, a political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., contends that Karl Marx’s Capital is unrivaled in its explanatory power ...

But the term “state capitalism” is wildly inaccurate and blames capitalism for the evils of its opposing political system, ...

To Thomas Carlyle, it was “one of the shabbiest gospels ever preached”. Adam Smith was an early fan, but was still suspicious of those who practised it. Rosa Luxemburg thought it fuelled imperialism ...

If capitalism had been overthrown as quickly as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had at first expected, John Cassidy’s sprawling “Capitalism and Its Critics” would have been shorter and easier to write, ...

American capitalism was created by American democracy, wrote Gordon Wood, the Depression-born historian. One can go further: The unique strength of our capitalist system mirrors that of our political ...

While many people bandy around the term “capitalism,” it actually comes in many different forms. The most basic definition of capitalism is when the means of production – such as factories, farms and ...

[This article is part of a short series on Marxism and its relevance for left resistance in today’s challenging geopolitical and ecological climate, and for the continuing effort to win a better world ...

In “Aggregated Discontent,” Harron Walker takes on culture, capitalism, health care and art. In 2018, Harron Walker was working at a toy store in New York, struggling to make ends meet as a freelance ...