We are now drawing to the end of Marx’s bicentennial. He was born in 1818 (May 5). And March 14 was the 135th anniversary of his death (1883).
This year was also the 170th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto.
Below are some of the pieces we have run on Redline about Marx’s ideas, including pieces which show their continuing relevance to understanding the world as it is and as it could be.
How capitalism works – and why it doesn’t
Two articles on Wages, prices & lies and Capitalist crisis
Karl Korsch on “tremendous and enduring” impact of Marx’s Capital (1932)
Engels on Marx on the Working Day
Marx’s critique of classical political economy
Capital, the working class and Marx’s critique of political economy
Pilling’s Marx’s Capital: philosophy, dialectics and political economy
How capitalism under-develops the world
The political economy of low-wage labour
Whatever happened to the leisure society?
Pensions and the retirement age – the problem is capitalism, not an aging population
A nightmare in whiteware: the ‘teamwork’ system, exploitation and alienation
Value, price and the ‘transformation problem’ in Marx’s Capital
The transformation problem and Marx’s crisis theory
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