How did Marxism become Marxism? A new book examines a set of thinkers and activists who helped transform a set of radical ideas into a political tradition. In the years leading up to the outbreak of ...

Karl Marx never visited the United State but he and his ideas left an imprint nonetheless. Karl Marx never visited the United States, but he was long fascinated by the lure—and contradictions—of ...

Wikipedia had an entry on “Cultural Marxism” but it redirects the reader to Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory. I read on, and discovered that, according to Wikipedia, Cultural Marxism is “a far-right ...

Last week I did one of my routine exercises in my Marxism course at Grove City College. In that class, we scour everything on Marx and various strains and offshoots of Marxism. We read all sides — ...

LEADERS of the 75 Communist parties meeting in Moscow—and those conspicuously absent—often argue bitterly about what their faith, Marxism, means. More interesting is the question of what Marxism does.

CounterPunch recently republished two compelling articles about Herbert Marcuse. Charles Reitz’s study, “When Marxist Intellectuals Collaborated With the CIA,” (December 12, 2025); and Michael Yates ...

Werner Bonefeld writes on the concepts of mediation and de-mediation highlighting the importance of struggle. Published in 1987 for Common Sense no. 2, pages 67-72. Richard Gunn also wrote an expanded ...

In the June issue of The New Criterion, Norman Cantor asserts that “[Lawrence] Stone was—and is—an English Marxist.” He goes on to imply that Lawrence Stone used his “extensive patronage powers” as ...

More than one hundred years after the socialist movement split into warring Marxist and anarchist factions, there are signs, at least on a small scale, that people calling themselves anarchists and ...

The term “cultural Marxism” is little more than a racist dog whistle. The most recent use of that term in pop culture, in a now-deleted tweet by Ron Paul (or, as he claims, his staff) illustrates this ...

Nearly forty years after his death in 1980, the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre is best remembered as the father of existentialism. We are most familiar with him as the theorist of freedom, ...