Todd Chretien

  • The poverty of Proudhon's anarchism

    In a short book critiquing an anarchist thinker, Marx clarified his understanding that there could be no individual or partial solution to exploitation. May 9, 2013

  • Muck, filth, phantoms and revolution

    The German Ideology shows Marx and Engels' developing views on history, capitalism and working-class revolution. May 1, 2013

  • Praxis makes perfect

    In Theses on Feuerbach, Marx provided a short, important sketch that points to the relationship between ideas and practice. March 26, 2013

  • What do ideas do?

    Marx and Engels' first joint book helped them work out their ideas about working-class revolution and the class struggle. October 24, 2012

  • Marx and the Silesian strikers

    Just as Marx first identified himself as a communist in his writings, an uprising of textile workers broke out in Germany. October 3, 2012

  • Rekindling the human spirit

    Marx's writings on alienation contain some of his most moving critiques of capitalism's crippling impact on body and mind. September 25, 2012

  • Marx meets the working class

    While other philosophers took refuge in abstraction, Marx argued that philosophy alone was powerless to change the world. March 29, 2011

  • The muckraking Marx

    As editor of the Rheinische Zeitung, Marx began to understand the power of wealth, and to develop a sympathy with the poor and oppressed. March 9, 2011

  • Hegel's hard work

    Reading a little Hegel can provide a richer appreciation for how Karl Marx developed his own revolutionary theories. February 23, 2011

  • Getting started with Marx and Engels

    A new SocialistWorker.org series--aimed at providing a guide to reading the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels--gets underway. February 8, 2011

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