Karl Marx’s influence among intellectual elites underwent a massive rebound in recent years. In 2018, mainstream publications including the New … Continue reading “Marxism is back – but Marxists cannot shake off the Soviet legacy”

This week will mark the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. It will be an occasion for a deluge of articles … Continue reading “Have Karl Marx’s ideas been ‘distorted’ by socialist regimes?”

The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, recently hit the headlines for his predictions of what might happen … Continue reading “No – automation will not make Marx ‘relevant again’”

Daffyd Thomas, one of the most memorable characters in the ‘Little Britain’ series, is ‘the only gay in the village’. … Continue reading “Why I can’t be bothered to read Marx”

Continued from Part 1.   Let me suggest that what Marx was objecting to – revolting against – was human … Continue reading “Marx’s Flight from Reality (Part 2)”

Though it may seem strange, Karl Marx was not always a communist. As late as 1842, when Marx was in … Continue reading “Marx’s Flight from Reality (Part 1)”

150 years after Karl Marx first proposed it, the theory of immiseration continues to have an uncanny hold on the … Continue reading “How Danny Dorling (and Oxfam) recycle Karl Marx’s wretched ‘immiseration theory’”

Sir – Marx’s theory of the crises of capitalism is little more than a melodramatic description of the business cycle … Continue reading “Marx was wrong in every important respect”