In his new biography of Karl Marx, Bruno Leipold puts his subject in historical context. Marx, he tells Jacobin, was engaged ...

Many of the basic forces at play remain the same, just in different forms, many of them set in motion by an economy in ...

In 1842, Friedrich Engels walked the streets of Manchester in the UK, noting its crowded tenements and sunless, smoke-filled ...

Freedom of the press and access to reliable information are pillars of democracy—freedoms which aspiring despots can ...