On Saturday afternoon, Nushi Nazemi marked the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth by laying a wreath at his London tomb.
Reporting from Berlin — A specter is haunting Germany — the specter of Karl Marx.
Editor’s Note: Mary Gabriel is author of “Love and Capital, Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution” (Little, Brown and Company), a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award.
A half-century has passed since the first book appeared, and in the interim we have witnessed both the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, since the 1967 war (if not before), the ongoing colonization .
Karl Marx never publicly referred to his Jewish background.
The consequences of Karl Marx’s ideas stagger the imagination.